Building A Stronger Roof Over Your Head: 'Three Little Pigs' Project Begins First Tests
Monday, August 25, 2008 - 11:21
in Earth & Climate
This week, inaugural tests at The University of Western Ontario's 'Three Little Pigs' project at the Insurance Research Lab for Better Homes will get underway. This facility is the first of its kind in the world to subject full-scale houses to pressures that simulate the effects of winds as strong as a category 5 hurricane -- or 200 mph -- all within a controlled environment.