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What is the Building Envelope Performance (BEP) value?
Overview
Watch the video to learn how the BEP value is used to describe the overall thermal performance of a building envelope.
From Oak Ridge National Laboratory
This video explains how the overall thermal performance of the building envelope can be described using the Building Envelope Performance (BEP) value.
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