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    Hens, H. and Fatin, A.M, (1995), Heat-air-moisture design of masonry cavity walls: theoretical and experimental results and practice



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    House traditions

    Home building in developed countries reflects two major tranditions: timber framed and masonry. Timber-framed housing dominates in North America, Scandinavia, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. Masonry housing prevails in northwestern, central and southern Europe. The European masonry trandition is further subdivided into massive souther Germany, Austria, Swithzerland, Italy, and France) and cavity wall construction (Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, northern Germany, and the United Kingdom).


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