Webinar: Pushing the Envelope - Going Beyond Conceptual Design

Description:

Over the past several years, the building envelope concept has been well promoted and established as a means for energy efficiency and building performance. With the vast product offerings available today comes confusion and misinformation. Building designers are often left guessing about product compatibility and proper design, leading to the potential of costly failures. The focus of this presentation is to dive deeper, beyond the concept, and into proper building envelope design. The presentation aims to educated attendees on proper product selection and performance characteristics, codes and testing, and proper tie-in detailing to ensure a continuous air seal.

Learning Objectives:

Recognize what is at stake with improper building envelope design and discuss the ideal building types that benefit the most from building envelope systems. In addition we will be discussing the codes requiring proper building envelope design and what is being required.
Learn how to select and properly install functional air/vapor barriers for roof, wall and below grade applications.
How to use a holistic approach for examining and selecting exterior continuous insulation options for rainscreen wall assemblies. We will analyze popular exterior continuous insulation options with an emphasis on selecting a material that functions well during all weather conditions.
Identify several common material and system tests required to meet building energy and safety codes.
Discover how to properly detail and tie-in common building materials to create and maintain a continuous air seal. We will look at some of the common and often difficult conditions that can exist.

Education Content: Intermediate