CRDConcept: envelope design

"A consensus is beginning to emerge that a 10% likelihood of failure is an appropriate level in building moisture design analysis" TenWolde, A. and Walker, I. S., 2001, Interior moisture design loads for residences

House that works (www.buildingscience.com/housesthatwork/) by BuildingScience.com has an excellent, detailed, with many drawings, guide for all climatic regions.

Timber joint design: Erman, 2003, Timber joint design: the geometric breakdown method

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Envelope details for wood frame houses, by APA

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Architectural record: Very good. descriptions of many projects on building designs
BDCMag- online magazine Building Design & Construction: a "magazine published for the building team ˇŞ architects, engineers, contractors, building owners and facilities managers involved in design and construction of nonresidential buildings"
Build-A-Better-Home: Many downloadable publication "to provide builders and homeowners the construction guidelines they need to protect their homes against damaging moisture infiltration, ..encourages better building practices for the key elements of a residential structure: roof, walls and foundation" by APA - Engineered Wood Association, formerly the America Panel Assoc.
Builder Online: news, trends, building products, marketplace, and resources
Building Group,CANMET Energy Technology Centre (CETC).: "deliver Energy-efficient building design and retrofit software, Technology brokerage services and technical assistance, Linkage to a global network of contacts, Marketing support for eco-efficient building technology and tools, and Seamless integration with your organizational structure " to develop and deploy building technologies and innovations that will help reduce energy consumption and lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with marked economic, environmental and social benefits.
Building Science .com: "rovides objective, high-quality information about buildings. This resource combines building physics, systems design concepts, and an awareness of sustainability to promote the design and construction of buildings that are more durable, healthier, more sustainable and more economical than most buildings built today."
Claddings Institute of New Zealand: "to promote quality performance of building envelopes."
Documents at Energy Efficient Buildings (Sina-Can project): many document with Canadian origins in "different areas of energy efficient construction: from the fundamentals to the nuts and bolts of EE products and equipment, the development of EE codes, technical study tours, and project planning techniques"
Guide to Wood Design Information: excellent "bibliography of technical wood design information available from the associations of the Wood Products Promotion Council and other cooperating organizations."- by Scott McVicker 1999
Publications at HPO (Homeowner Protection Office): Extensive publications to many home related issues and research (HPO publications and Annotated Bibliography of the Building Envelope
Residential Energy Code - Seattle: 10 Chapter, HTML format, interlinked.
Wood Construction Data Publications at AWC: Some downloadable publications by AWC

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--------: Building envelope and environmental control - Part 3: Issues of system integration, by Bomberg, M. T. and Brown, W. C., 1993
--------: Building envelope and environmental control: issues of system integration, by Bomberg, M. and Brown, W., 1993
--------: Building envelope design using design prototypes, by Tham, K. W., Lee, H.S. and Gero, J.S, 1990
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supporting the selection of energy saving building components: Design analysis integration: supporting the selection of energy saving building components, by de Wilde, P., Augenbroea, A. and van der Voorden, M., 2002
--------: Designing for durable wood construction: the 4 Ds, by Hazleden, D. G. and Morris, P. I., 1999
wood as noise barrier: Durability of wood, by ?deen, K. and J. Nor¨¦n, 1999
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envrionmental assessment methods: Emerging trends in building environmental assessment methods, by Cole, R. J., 1998
--------: Evaluation of vapour diffusion ports on drying of wood-frame walls under controlled conditions, by Hazlen, D. G. and Morris, P. I., 2002
--------: Evolution of wall design for controlling rain penetration, by Chown, G. A., Brown, W. C. and Poirier, G. F., 1997
--------: Final report from task 7 of MEWS long-term performance: predict the moisture management performance of wall systems as a function of climate, material properties, etc. through mathematical modelling, by Mukhopadhyaya, P., Kumaran, K., Tariku, F. and Reenen, D.V., 2003
--------: Guide to wood design information, 2001-2002 edition, by Wood Products Council, 2001
steel: Home steel home - AK steel partners with AgION^TM to build world's first antimicrobial steel house, by Chainer, J., 2001
--------: Hygrothermal performance of a new light gauge steel-framed envelope system, by Salonvaara, M. and Nieminen, J., 1998
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--------: IFC-based framework for evaluating total performance of building envelopes, by Fazio, P., He, H. S., Hammad, A. and Horvat, M., 2007
breathing walls: Indoor air quality, healthy buildings, and breathing walls, by Straube, J.F. and V. Acahrya, 0
--------: Infiltration heat recovery in building walls: computational fluid dynamics investigations results, by Abadie, M. O., Finlayson, E. U. and Gadgil, A. J., 2002
--------: Integrated systems performance and air quality and moisture management in a hot humid climate, by Holton, J. K., 1997
design for repair: Methods for designing building envelope components prepared for repair and maintenance, by Rudbeck, C., 1999
enclosure wall systems: Moisture control in enclosure wall systems, by Straube,J.F, 1995
walls with very hygroscopic insulation materials: Organic insulation materials: effect on indoor humidity and necessity of a vapor barrier, by Rode, C., 1998
--------: Performance indicators as a tool for decisions in the building process, by Yver?s, V., 2002
--------: Prediction of building envelope performance in the design stage: an application for office buildings , by ¨ąnver, R., Akda, N. Y., Gedik, G. Z., ?zt¨ąrk, L. D. and Karabiber, Z., 2004
design replaceable building envelope systems: Priorities in Building Envelope Design, by Hassanain, M. A. and Harkness, E. L., 1998
rain water management: Rainwater intrusion in light-frame building walls, by Carll, C., 2000
--------: Report from Task 8 of MEWS Project - MEWS Methodology for Developing Moisture Management Strategies - Application to Stucco Clad Wood-Frame Walls in North America, by Beaulieu, P., Bomberg, M. T., Cornick, S. M., Dalgliesh, W. A., Desmarais, G., Djebbar, R., Kumaran, M. K., Lacasse, M. A., et al, 2002
Breathing Wall: The application of dynamic insulation in buildings, by Taylor, B. J. and Imbabi, M. S., 1998
dynamic buffer zone: The control of moisture movement in buildings using the dynamic buffer zone, by Pasqualini, P., 1999
--------: Timber joint design: the geometric breakdown method , by Erman, E., 2003
--------: Walls and Infrastructure, by Duncheskie, D., Coleman, J. and Oddo, V., 1998

CRDBER, at CBS, BCEE, ENCS, Concordia, June 2014