Re: [GBlist] Wall permeability

[Sarah Holland/David Foley <hollandfoley@acadia.net>]

on 01/16/2002 5:00 PM, FUnger@aol.com at FUnger@aol.com wrote:

> Kirsten,
> 
> Come to the NESEA Conference at Tufts University in Boston, March 21 & 22.
> Attend the two sessions that John Straub presents at. You can't learn it
> better than he will teach it. Check out www.NESEA.org

Kirsten,

I'll second that.  Please do be careful in evaluating Baubiology, which is
so groovy that folks just WANT it to be true, even when it flies in the face
of what we know about physics.  I was once very seduced by the "Breathable
Wall" idea.  It can work, if you are very, very good at building science.
John Straube is that good - most of us aren't.  Joe Lstiburek, who has
written the Builder's Guide series, is also that good.  The best information
I found in Europe on a sensible approach to "Baubiology" was from Bjorn
Berge and Dag Roalkvam of Gaia Lista, an architecture firm near
Kristiansund, Norway, and from Varis Bolkalders, an architect in Stockholm.
The contact info for Varis is Varis Bolkalders, School of Architecture,
Department of Housing, Royal Institute of Technology, 100 44 Stockholm
SWEDEN, Phone +46-8-7908568, Fax +46-8-7908539.  The contact info for Dag
and Bjorn is Gaia Lista, Jøllestø, N-4560 Vanse NORWAY, Phone +47-38-397710,
Fax  +47-38-397711.  (My contact info is 6 years old, so I can't vouch for
its accuracy.)

- David Foley
-- 
Holland & Foley Building Design L.L.C.
232 Beech Hill Rd.
Northport, Maine 04849 USA
p: (207) 338-9869 f: (207) 338-9859 e: hollandfoley@acadia.net


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