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Lee Durston, Senior Building Science Consultant, and Steve Murray, Director, will be presenting two sessions at this year's Ontario Building Envelope Council Roofing Seminar & Annual General Meeting. Lee Durston will present ETFE Roofing: Current Case Studies. This session will review multiple case studies of ETFE roofing installations, presenting important lessons learned and discuss both […]
Neil Norris, Building Science Engineer, will be presenting a half-day workshop entitled Calculating Building Envelope Thermal Performance: What You Need To Know. The workshop is presented in partnership with Owens Corning […]
Christian Cianfrone, Principal and Building Energy Specialist, will be presenting The Importance of Structural Thermal Breaks in Meeting Future Energy Building Codes and Improving Building Envelope Efficiency at this year's BUILDEX […]
Christian Cianfrone, Building Energy Practice Lead, and Amir Hassan, Facade Engineering Specialist, will be presenting NECB 2011 and Building Envelope Systems. The session will take place at 11 a.m on Wednesday, March […]
Session Overview: The effective thermal resistance of building enclosure assemblies is essential information when evaluating the overall thermal performance – for more accurate energy modeling and a better understanding of how and where money should be spent to provide a better building design. As energy codes continue to request better performance and lower energy use, […]
Learn how the updates to LEEDv4 affect Building Envelope Commissioning at the April SeaBEC (Building Enclosure Council) monthly meeting. Steve Vinci, Senior Sustainability Consultant and Building Envelope Commissioning Practice Lead, will present on how the changes affect building performance going forward. Course Overview: The Commissioning process has historically attached itself to the active systems, leaving […]
Fin MacDonald, Sustainability Analyst, will be co-presenting Raising the Bar - Getting Class A Performance out of Class B Properties with Jeanne Medland and Trevor Gilbert of KingSett Capital. Presentation Overview: Learn how to unlock the potential of Class B properties through sustainability. Maximize the property’s economic, environmental, and long term potential by knowing where you stand within […]
Medgar Marceau, Senior Building Science Engineer, will be presenting on Passive House standards, common in residential construction, and how they can be applied to commercial projects at the 2017 SeaBEC Symposium. Course Overview: The accelerating growth of Passive House across the US and Canada is leading a change in the building envelope industry across the Pacific […]
David Kayll, Principal and Director, will be presenting OBC Part 5: Understanding Durability at the annual Royal Architecture Institute of Canada (RAIC) and Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) joint conference. Presentation Overview: OBC Sentence 5.1.4.2 (3) requires that: "...assemblies exposed to the exterior shall be in accordance with good practice such as described in CSA S478: […]
Mark Lucuik, Senior Sustainability Specialist, and Alex Blue, Building Energy Consultant, will present Building Envleope Strategies to Achieve Net Zero at this year's Canadian Green Building Council (CaGBC) annual conference. Course Overview: Net Zero Buildings are often achieved by maximizing the benefits of passive technologies, such as the building envelope, but it is difficult to know […]