This post first appeared on the Green Building Advisor website.
I’ve heard Mike Guertin mention that every home built is a building science experiment. It can take some time for problems in buildings to be known. For instance, a bad detail on a window installation, like shown in this photo, could take more than 20 years to present as a problem. If the problem is being repeated, building science might identify the issue and propose a change. Eventually, the change may end up in the building codes, but this whole process is slow.
That being said, there are many building science principles that we have figured out, with several already added to the codes. Some have been known about for decades but are still slow to be adopted. Let’s discuss a few of each.
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