Building Professional Resources
New Construction - Foundations
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Builder's Foundation Handbook
Contains construction details and critical design
information to aid in the design and installation of energy efficient
basement, crawl space, and slab-on-grade foundations.
Source:
DOE Building
Envelopes Program
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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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Why Sand Layers Should not be Between Poly and Concrete Floor Slabs
2001, Joseph Lstiburek. A sand layer between poly and a
concrete slab functions as blotter paper that can trap water because
the poly prevents drying to the ground. Water that quickly enters the
sand layer as a liquid will take years to dry through the concrete.
When poly is used as a vapor barrier it must be directly beneath the
concrete slab.
Source: Building Science
Corporation
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