1.5 ConEd Learning Hours

Hosted by DuRock Alfacing

Pressure-utilized compartmented cavity systems (PUCCS) can serve as integral parts of the building envelope, separating the indoor environment from the outdoor. This session will address the building code performance requirements applicable to protection from precipitation, fire protection, air leakage control, condensation control, and thermal resistance. It furthermore relates those properties to sustainable, resilient, passive design.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn why pressure-utilized compartmented cavity systems can be economical and sustainable alternatives to other insulated cladding retrofit strategies.
2. Discover how well-insulated airtight envelopes are instrumental to passive design, simultaneously enhancing the resiliency of buildings to bring us closer to achieving collective climate initiatives.
3. Understand why such systems were specifically chosen to retrofit the largest Passive House EnerPHit-certified residential building in the world, which is located in Ontario.
4. Learn how adding insulation on the exterior minimally disrupts building occupants during construction, and provides an effective means to control vapour diffusion, significantly reducing the likelihood of condensation inside moisture-sensitive walls.