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BSI-001: The Perfect Wall

last updated 2008/09/09
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An edited version of this Insight first appeared in the ASHRAE Journal. The perfect wall is an environmental separator – it has to keep the outside out and the inside in. In order to do this the wall assembly has to control rain, air, vapor and heat.
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by Joseph Lstiburek — last modified 2008/09/09
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