7 Minutes of BS (#BuildingScience w/a BEAT)
30 minute descriptions of technical topics distilled to seven minutes.
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When space is tight and housing demand is high, accessory dwelling units (ADUs) offer an ideal solution—until wildfire sweeps into the neighborhood. To understand how property density affects fire spread in the suburbs. Researchers set fire to a code-compliant ADU to test how ember swarms, radiant heat, and direct flames impact nearby structures.
Today's guest is Peter Yost, of Building-Wright, talking about the problems that attic fans set out to solve, whether they solve the problems, and how to do it, regardless of whether you use an attic fan.
In this episode of 7 Minutes of BS, we continue the discussion with engineer Jonathan Smegal of RDH Building Science Laboratories to break down the best exterior insulation retrofit systems based on real-world testing on five identical student housing units.
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Today, we are joined by Jonathan Smegal, an engineer with RDH Building Science in Waterloo, Ontario. Mr Smegal discusses the benefits of exterior insulation, then walks us through a recent study of five exterior insulation systems.
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