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The wall we designed for the Edelweiss house, Canada's first LEED Platinum V4 Home is best categorized as a 'REMOTE' wall, a high perform...
...Building America and IECC Climate Zones
The table below shows the relationship between the Building America and IECC climate zones .
Building Americ...
...building as an integrated system, the basic principles of buildingscience and how they can be used to design reliable, high performance building assemblies.
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...BuildingScience Corporation, " The R-value of 6 inch deep steel studs installed at 16 inch centers with cavity insulation of R-21 is reduced to R-7.4, a value ...
...buildings worldwide that will provide “net positive” benefits to the environment. It reduces UBC ’s carbon emissions, powers itself and a neighboring building w...
...buildingscience makes mundane tasks like folding laundry a joy. This particular episode was about phase change building materials (PCMs) and how they can be in...
...building failures than building successes. It's time that the cult deprogramming started."
- Joe Lstiburek, Principal of BuildingScience Corporation
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...buildings;
Any builder who has successfully navigated a performance-rating system would be knowledgeable in the area of green home building , so is a good bet...
...BuildingScience expert, Joe Lstiburek.
Why are old homes with air-con in great shape while new ones rot?
A century ago, houses were made of rocks, brick an...
...buildings.
Lorne Ricketts is a BuildingScience Engineer [EIT] with RDH Building Engineering Ltd. and has significant experience with the thermal performanc...
...building homes that are better than the legal minimum performance allowed - otherwise known as Building Codes - is probably a smart move.
While we continue to...
