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Format: Virtual
1 HSW Credit Approved
Course Description
Foam Free High Performance Building Enclosures presents a clear and practical guide to achieving the highest levels of resilient and sustainable building enclosures while eliminating foam. The growing performance demands of air control, vapor control, thermal control, health and sustainability are examined. Foam insulation, dominant in today’s high-performance marketplace, is increasingly recognized as hindering many of these building performance goals. Practitioners are therefore wanting and finding new solutions that virtually eliminate foam and provide greater performance. This presentation is a careful look at how to do it.
Learning Objectives
- Define what qualities differentiate high-performance enclosures from typical construction and how those qualities are evolving.
- Describe practitioner concerns of foam insulation hindering efforts to meet the evolving high-performance qualities.
- Describe how a foam free enclosure can more robustly achieve the qualities of high-performance.
- Describe practical methodologies practitioners can implement, to successfully produce a high-performance enclosure that is foam free.
Speaker: Ian Nimmo
Ian has been with 475 since 2018 and loves supporting his clients with all things high performance! Most recently, Ian became a PHI certified Passive House Tradesperson in addition to his HERS Rater and BPI Building Analyst certifications. Ian’s father was a General Contractor in California for 35 years, so he has always had an interest in homebuilding. Ian has experience in canvassing, energy auditing, on site data gathering, data analysis, energy modeling, and whole home diagnostic testing.
About 475 High Performance Building Supply
475’s mission is to supply essential materials, building components, and knowledge that will lead a transformation of the North American construction industry toward making durable high-performance, Passive House and zero-energy buildings.
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