The year 2013 saw many research projects conducted at HSG CodeBlue’s Structural Drying Laboratory in Springfield, Ohio.

Sitting in the backroom of a metro-Detroit office building is a 1,000 square foot “house.

Select Academy, the Montreal, Quebec specialized cleaning school for disaster restoration and cleaning, will introduce a 2,000 square foot flood house on September 11, 2012, according to a press release.

Flood houses are structures that are built so they can be purposefully flooded with water in order to train water restoration technicians and insurance professionals.