. >> bud dietrich is an architect who helps people design homes to keep them safe. and steve perry, one of the best home builders in the business, works with him to put the designs to work. >> if we do a major remodel on a house or do a lot of structural work on a house, typically, we will go in and do hurricane reinforcing while we're doing the other improvements in the house. >> the insurance institute for business and home safety tests structures made both with common materials and stronger reinforced materials. >> we're able to put single and two-story homes into a very realistic hurricane-type scenario with gusty winds and realistic rain. >> you get those large, hurricane-force winds. i mean, they can be 150, 180 miles an hour. >> it can get in there and actually rip that whole structure right apart just like a wind might affect a sail on a sailboat during a real intense gust. >> and what we see in the video is a home built to code, t it would be in the middle of the country, standing next to a home built to ibh's fortified building standards, which are a littl