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Basic Building Science for Homes: Testing is the Cornerstone
Overview
Watch to learn how the Building Performance Workshop approaches diagnostics, inspections, computer modeling, load calculations, and verifying that healthy home targets have been achieved.
In our practice of diagnostics, inspections, computer modeling, load calculations, and verifying that healthy home targets have been achieved, we use a very simple approach, and here it is.
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