Michael Stern·Just nowWhy the Openings in a Core Wall Are the Real ProblemA core wall is strongest where it is unbroken, and every door a building needs is a place the wall stops doing its job
Brett Dillon·1d agoAI Use in Residential Building Science Investigations, Part 5 of 6: CopilotThere’s an important scientific model that is often overlooked, yet it is one of the most powerful tools we can use when faced with the…
Brett Dillon·6d agoAI Use in Residential Building Science Investigations, Part 4 of 6: GeminiThere’s an important scientific model that is often overlooked, yet it is one of the most powerful tools we can use when faced with the…
Michael Stern·6d agoWhat Miami Demanded That New York Never DidThe water and the wind are measured rather than researched, and an order of operations is the part of a practice that does not travel.
MinimalAirCo·Oct 31Your Indoor Pool Is Quietly Eating Your BuildingA hotel maintenance director showed me his pool hall after five winters: black mold creeping behind the ceiling tiles, rust weeping from…
Genyasker·Oct 24Y-WARM INSIGHTS: BUILDING MATERIALS SCIENCEY-Warm vs. Aerogel, Cellulose, Fibreglass and Styrofoam: The Great Insulation SqueezeA response icon1A response icon1
Ali·Oct 20We Spent Years Blaming Our Furnace for Dry Michigan Winters. We Had the Physics Completely Wrong.Author’s note: This article was adapted from an original case study on residential HVAC systems with the assistance of AI drafting tools…
Michael Stern·Oct 7How a Damper Changes What a Tower Can DoAt the top of a slender tower the governing limit is what the people inside can feel, and damping is how that limit gets met
Christopher Hayes·Sep 12Why Rapid Alpine Freeze Thaw Cycles Split Structural Log FramingEngineering audit of timber and log-frame structures throughout the Pine area requires accounting for a moisture and mechanical stress…
Evgenii Konkin·Sep 7The Psychrometric Chart Is Not Complicated. You Are Just Reading It Wrong.Engineers treat the psychrometric chart like it is a secret code. It is not. It is a map with six variables plotted on two axes. The…
