Nathan Culley, TBE, CxA, Penn Air Control, Inc. An airtight building envelope is one of the most important contributors to an efficient, comfortable, durable and healthy building. In addition to ...

Current codes requirements are now requiring the design of proper air barriers within the building enclosure. Along with these new design standards are the requirements to conduct a building ...

Building enclosure commissioning—BECx—is intended to assure building quality by establishing an explicit process to verify that a building enclosure is designed and constructed to meet the owner’s ...

Building enclosures have evolved drastically in the modern age. Previously designing a building enclosure meant solid load-bearing walls of masonry between interior spaces and the unrelenting outdoors ...

Moisture is less problematic in older buildings such as this one because they dry out faster and don't have a lot of areas for water to get in, such as balconies. The building enclosure, or envelope, ...

Until recently, electrical enclosure manufacturers faced a challenge: In order to build enclosures that were UL 50E Type rated, additional testing and evaluation of the enclosure was almost always ...