Building Science Live

Cup of Joe's

Cup of Joe - Betsy Pettit and Joe Lstiburek on How to Get to Net-Zero

To get to zero energy conservation takes us most of the way…and the last bit is the renewables piece.  We get 70 percent of the way to “net zero” with conservation….  Guess what…we changed the…

Westford Symposium

Lessons From 70 Years Of Building Science Field Investigations (Hartwig Kunzel 2024)

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kunzel is the Head of Department, Hygrothermics, Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics, Germany. To say he is a legend is an understatement. He is the "godfather" of WUFI "Warme…

Building Science Briefs

Water Repellents for Brick Buildings

Water is weird…and I point this out in an admiring manner… Water by itself is weird…it is a “polar molecule think “tiny magnets”….but when it changes phase from a liquid to a solid or from a liquid…