Well, that should provide a certain amount of information about what will happen the next time a hurricane or tornado comes straight at a house like a fan. Good thing hurricanes don’t create highly variable wind effects.
Based on this description, it doesn’t seem that they have controlled for very many variables at all. So, yes, it was a waste of money.
From your comment’s, one might assume you feel the crash testing done on cars is also “Very Unscientific and A Waste of Money”. Even though that has a proven track record of safety improvements to cars.
If you had taken the time to do even a smidge of research, you’d have found that each fan has vanes that allow for variable wind flow & speed, along with a large number of other variables that they can put in.
And trust me, the methods used are very rigorous from the scientific point of view, or this would have been a waste of money. Think it through for a moment, if this wasn’t done to very stringent standards and they recommend something flawed/unsubstantiated by reams of data from multiple scientific tests, what would happen after a loss occurs? First off, a lawsuit blaming the research center for faulty testing / flawed design.
Research and testing are great. However, until the Uniform Building Code and contractors agree to go beyond “minimum building codes” it won’t do any good. The insurance companies can test, but they can’t legislate or adopt improved guidelines.
So, these houses were “facing the wind?”
Well, that should provide a certain amount of information about what will happen the next time a hurricane or tornado comes straight at a house like a fan. Good thing hurricanes don’t create highly variable wind effects.
Based on this description, it doesn’t seem that they have controlled for very many variables at all. So, yes, it was a waste of money.
From your comment’s, one might assume you feel the crash testing done on cars is also “Very Unscientific and A Waste of Money”. Even though that has a proven track record of safety improvements to cars.
If you had taken the time to do even a smidge of research, you’d have found that each fan has vanes that allow for variable wind flow & speed, along with a large number of other variables that they can put in.
And trust me, the methods used are very rigorous from the scientific point of view, or this would have been a waste of money. Think it through for a moment, if this wasn’t done to very stringent standards and they recommend something flawed/unsubstantiated by reams of data from multiple scientific tests, what would happen after a loss occurs? First off, a lawsuit blaming the research center for faulty testing / flawed design.
Research and testing are great. However, until the Uniform Building Code and contractors agree to go beyond “minimum building codes” it won’t do any good. The insurance companies can test, but they can’t legislate or adopt improved guidelines.