Still standing.
Fire. Flood. Ballistics. Field tested. The product endures.
The wall stopped every round. Including .375 H&H at 50 meters.
During our March 2024 GL renewal, an underwriter challenged public “bulletproof” claims. In August 2024 we live-fired a 7-inch single-wythe wall in Liberty Hill, Texas: 9mm, 5.56, .308, and .375 H&H Magnum at 50 meters. Zero penetrations.
July 2025 Hill Country flood. The wall was still standing in October.
Same test wall, photographed 4 Jan 2025, 10 Jul 2025 (inundated), and 26 Oct 2025 (dry, intact).
Two hours inside the burn.
Ryan Runge, President of AECT, sat inside a CEB structure while pallets burned around it for nearly two hours. Thermal mass kept the interior livable. Not a lab test.
Credit: Ryan Runge, President, AECT.
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The first floor of a CEB home
remained standing.
On 27 April 2014 an EF-4 cut a 41-mile path through Vilonia, Arkansas at 170+ mph. Sixteen dead. About 200 injured. Bark was stripped off the trees. A 10,000-pound AECT 5000 press was thrown and wrecked. The first floor of a CEB home in that debris field was still standing.
Credit: Ryan Runge, President, AECT.
Same house. First floor, still up.