What is a Healthy Home? We already know what acceptable, healthy indoor conditions are. Decades of research has shown a defined range of indoor conditions reduce the risk of adverse
After researching the fire compliance of cladding in New Zealand since 2017, some may say advice from Oculus is conservative, but they prefer to think of it as design for
Lesson One: Heating I thought I knew a thing, or two, about heating. Well the basics, at least.
Both standards cover the evaluation of modern, indoor, thermal environments including residential and industrial. They both provide definitions, requirements, and parameters that need to be met within a certain range
Don’t use materials that burn. I considered ending the article right there. It’s not that hard. Does it burn? Yes? Then you can’t use it. “What about…” “Does it burn?”
I’m republishing this article from a couple of years ago as BWS #11/28 because I still think it’s clever and no one has argued with me about it yet. Come
I’m stealing and building on a metaphor from Karl Jones at a seminar in 2019. You can tell I’m ready to get out of COVID19 lockdown and back to the
Heat gains and losses is complex discussion. You literally need complex software and skills to even begin to predict the energy use of a building and if then you’re probably
You should test the weather tightness of a curtain wall, windows, and designs under cyclonic winds, rain, and earthquakes but you shouldn’t think that is a guarantee of performance in-situ:
When talking about building enclosure performance, we commonly refer to control of the following elements: water, heat, and air. Controlling the free flow of these elements across and into the
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