Building Enclosure Consulting

01/18/2025

A termite-damaged exterior 2x4 wall showing abandoned steel counterweights. Such counterweights hidden inside side wall cavities were common in hung windows before integrated springs were introduced. Such system was easier and cheaper to fix than springs, but much more difficult to install, explaining why it was abandoned.

10/03/2024

Roof uplift resistance. Tie down by someone who understood building physics. Ridiculed by hundreds who don’t. Not a single comment about the top notch.

03/17/2022

I am sharing an investigation of a very unusual building: a 120 ft tall, historic tower, that I was allowed to torture for a while.

I am sharing an investigation of a very unusual building: a 120 ft tall, historic tower, that I was allowed to torture for a while. It was never intended...

02/28/2021

We just realized this morning that FB deleted all our posts. Our entire wall is empty now. Anyway, all new educational content will be posted at Building Enclosure Institute's page https://www.facebook.com/Building-Enclosure-Institute-109801912519854, and our old mixed content remains on our website www.building-enclosure.com and old, archived http://www.facade-doctor.com/

Consulting engineers of facade (façade) of a building. Building Enclosure Consulting, LLC. Facade Doctor HomePage. Building science for building enclosures. The facade engineering company, devoted to diagnosis, consulting, engineering simualtions, and design of building enclosures. Dealing with ite...

01/19/2021

Please, check on the new nonprofit dedicated to facade research: https://www.facebook.com/Building-Enclosure-Institute-109801912519854
This i where all new educational materials will be posted from now onward.

Non profit foundation dealing with science and education about building enclosures: building skins s

01/29/2017

Question: What kind of architecture do you do? Building enclosures are fairly similar in all buildings, so my response often confuses and disappoints an interviewer, who expects an answer running along the divisions of residential, public, commercial, healthcare, etc.
However, upon reflection, building enclosures are not really...

Kaz | BECx Commissioning, Energy, University

12/06/2016

We try to have some fun during those long, boring reviews of building envelopes: http://www.building-enclosure.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/kiss.jpg http://www.building-enclosure.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ass.jpg

Kaz | BECx Commissioning, Curtain Walls

11/05/2016

I will be speaking at:
BEC Cleveland http://www.bec-cleveland.org/events/ on December 7th
and AIA Columbus http://www.aiacolumbus.org/index.php/2013-08-20-19-26-27/jobboard/9-architects/archcontent/254-cote-series on December 9th
Looking forward to seeing you there!

Kaz | Seminars

03/23/2016

It’s very rare to find accurate information on Internet, so I am very happy to announce my recent finding of this article about thermal resistance: it’s titled “K-Value, U-Value, R-Value, C-Value, Understanding the Value in All These Values http://www.insulation.org/articles/article.cfm?id=IO090302 ,”and written by Gordon...

Kaz | Uncategorized

03/21/2016

This morning I received an email from Amazon, officially informing me that a $0.99 payment was posted to our account. That’s not much money, because Amazon does not allow a seller of a video to set its price (I am not kidding, I discovered it only after we set it up).
However, this email reminded me about Our DVDs on Amazon.com...

Kaz | DVD, Seminars, University