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

Building Code v. Best Practices: Who's the Boss?

When I was a young punk kid in my 20’s and thought I was a builder the local building official would show up on my project site before I screwed up - he kept me out of trouble - he taught me enough…