Dr. Ian Giammanco is the Managing Director for Standards & Data Analytics and a Lead Research Meteorologist at the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety Center. He has been instrumental in the creation of IBHS’s Thunderstorm Ready Home program which was created in the wake of severe weather events. In 2023 alone 20 states were impacted by 19 severe convective storm events, each causing over $1 billion in damage.   Building from the Fortified Homes, Fortified, Roof, and Wildfire Prepared homes programs the voluntary Thunderstorm Ready Home program is another example of the results of applied research and inspection that IBHS is doing to impacting the built environment in positive ways. Dr. Ian Giammanco on LinkedIn   About Dr. Ian Giammanco   IBHS Thunderstorm Ready Homes Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS) IBHS Research video BUILDcast #16 – 2022 Fred Malik and the Fortified Construction Program BUILDcast #20-2022 Dan Gorham and the new IBHS Wildfire Prepared Home Program