Talk title: "The History of the Perfect Wall……"
Joseph Lstiburek, known to symposium regulars simply as Joe, is the founder of Building Science Corporation and the host of the Westford Symposium on…
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What can 24 indoor air quality sensors tell you about a single building? In this talk, I walk through a whole-building IAQ study measuring CO2, temperature, relative humidity, PM2.5, and VOCs…
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Stephanie Taylor, MD, MArch is the founder and CEO of Building4Health and an ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer on indoor air quality and health. In this talk from the Westford Symposium, she…
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Talk title: "The Sound of Sausage in Swollen Standard Casings"
Nick Hurst is a carpenter-turned-building scientist, serial home remodeler, and musician who has worked on historic homes (including an…
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Talk title: "Replacing a hydro-air boiler with an air-source heat pump"
Bruce Harley is a building performance consultant known for his work on HVAC load calculations, heat pump retrofits, and…
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Talk title: "Designing a Cold Temperature Heat Pump for Air Quality and Comfort Management"
Ty Newell designs and manufactures cold-climate heat pump ventilation equipment, including the CERV (…
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Talk title: "Back to the Future – Installing hydronics and air-to-water heat pumps to get fossil fuels out of buildings"
Galen Staengl is a mechanical engineer whose career in renewable…
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Talk title: "Clustering Stuff: The Many Benefits of Architecturally Compact Mechanical Infrastructure"
Gary Klein is a hot water distribution and efficient plumbing systems expert who has…
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Talk title: "Taking Passive Building to New Heights: Scaling from Single-Family Homes to Multifamily Housing"
Greta Tjeltveit's career started as a single-family energy rater and has since grown…
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Talk title: "Buildings Move, Buildings Leak: Revisiting the Critical Link Between Engineering Mechanics and Enclosure Performance"
Jon Porter is a structural engineer whose work focuses on the…
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Talk title: "Apartment Buildings: New Dissections, Interventions and Connections"
Chris Benedict is a New York City architect known for her pioneering work on Passive House and deep energy retrofit…
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Talk title: "Drain, Drain Go Away"
John Straube is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo, where his research focuses on building…
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Talk title: "Are We There Yet? A Brief Update on Progress Towards Better Indoor Environments for All"
The Covid-19 pandemic got people talking about the need to improve indoor air quality and, more…
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Talk title: "Going Tropical- Building, Cooling and Ventilating in Climate Zone 0A"
Kimberly Llewellyn is a humidity and HVAC forensics, training, and resiliency design consultant and co-…
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