Tuesday, February 18th, 2014
When developers in Italy wanted to do full-scale testing on how hundreds of trees on terraces of two residential towers in Milan would hold up in winds in excess of 100 miles per hour, they turned to FIU’s Wall of Wind. IHRC researchers conducted full-scale testing of trees to determine realistic wind loads on various types of trees and the planter design to securely hold them in the balconies.
http://news.fiu.edu/2014/02/testing-the-worlds-first-vertical-forest/74502
