Building Science Workshop and Dinner

The Building Science Workshop is a one-day seminar that teaches the basic knowledge needed to design and build durable, energy efficient, affordable and healthy buildings.  Dr. Joseph Lstiburek will discuss building science principles (such as the control of heat, air and moisture and IAQ) and show you how to apply them to low-energy enclosure design, advanced HVAC systems, forensic investigations, and the repair and retrofitting of existing buildings.

At the dinner forum, Joseph Lstiburek will provide an entertaining and provocative examination of building investigation approaches based on a lifetime of experience - "stuff you don't find in books"; Dr. Lstiburek, in the course of his career, has been involved in almost all of the key commercial and residential "failure cause célèbre" issues over the past three decades: carbon monoxide poisoning, radon, hardboard siding, OSB siding, fire retardant treated plywood, EIFS, the mold litigation explosion, IAQ failures, floor finishing failures, vinyl wall coverings, building papers and housewraps, celebrity architects and now LEED. He has concluded that people are weird, women are different than men, folks don't always tell the truth, but physics never lies, and that none of this matters to juries.