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Foundations - Moisture Resistant Construction
2001, Nathan Yost and Joe Lstiburek. Residential foundations
rarely collapse, but they may allow enough moisture to enter the
structure to eventually result in the building's collapse. This
article summarizes strategies to keep foundations dry.
Source:
Building Science
Corporation
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Basement Insulation Systems
July 2002, Nathan Yost, M.D. and Joseph Lstiburek, Ph.D.,
P.E. The experience of Building Science Corporation with the two most
common ways to insulate the interior of a basement have been bad.
Continued use of these approaches by the home building industry will
likely lead to a disaster of unprecedented proportions and may result
in the construction of energy efficient homes being set back a
generation. Find out the right way to insulate a basement to avoid
this potential disaster.
Source:
Building Science
Corporation
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Slab Insulation
Improve comfort and save energy in homes with
slab-on-grade floors
Source:
DOE Building
Technologies Program
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Crawlspace Design
November 2003, Nathan Yost, M.D. Houses are often better without
crawlspaces than with crawlspaces. It ’s not that crawlspaces can ’t
be built correctly; it ’s just that there rarely are built correctly.
Poorly constructed crawlspaces are a major source of moisture problems
in homes and they are a major cause of poor indoor air quality.
Source: Building
Science Corporation
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