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Joe Nagan discusses the challenges of managing indoor moisture levels in homes in cold climates.

Overview

Controlling moisture is essential to ensuring durable buildings. It is also essential to ensuring good indoor air quality and comfort. Learn how moist air behaves under various temperature and humidity conditions and how it moves through a building assembly. With an understanding of psychrometrics, the thermodynamic properties of moist air, you can build more durable, comfortable homes and help homeowners understand the importance of managing interior moisture levels.

This training uses examples of buildings in cold climates to show the impact of surface temperatures, discuss basic window condensation and explain how to control indoor moisture levels.

Learner Objectives

By the end of this webcast, participants should be able to:

• Explain how to control moisture movement through a building assembly
• Describe the causes of window condensation in cold climate houses and how to control it
• Specify building practices that will reduce air movement and overall moisture transportation inside a building
• Specify building shell construction practices that reduce moisture related problems

Who should view this webcast?

Residential builders, contractors, designers and architects, code officials and building performance consultants

Agenda—a case study approach to:

• Basics of psychrometrics
• Moisture and moisture control
• Moisture and cold climate houses

Credits

This webcast will take you approximately 1 hour 20 minutes to complete and is an audio-visual presentation. Once you have completed the course, and passed a 16 question quiz, members of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) will earn 1.25 HSW/SD/LU (learning units). This course has been approved at the 200 level by the United States Green Building Council which will award 1 Continuing Education Unit as part of the GBCI Credentialing Maintenance program. The Wisconsin Department of Commerce will award the following credits: Dwelling Contractor Qualifier (1 hour of credit) and UDC-Construction Inspector Certification (1 hour of credit). Focus on Energy will award 1 hour of credit. Registration is required to view the webcast and receive credit.

The Energy Center is an Authorized Provider for the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), and U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), and is committed to developing quality learning activities.

Cost

This on-demand webcast is $49.