The Cavity Wall Balancing Act: Designing for Watertightness, Airtightness, Thermal Efficiency, and NFPA 285 Code Compliance May 15, 2018 8 • RC I I n t e r f a c e Oc t o b e r 2 0 1 8 Figure 1 – The Dancing House, designed by Vlado Milunic and Frank O. Gehry, in Prague, Czech Republic. Photo ©Vladimir Sazonov/Shutterstock.com. ABSTRACT The use of open-joint rainscreens, coupled with unconventional wall orientations, […] Read More
The #MeToo Movement – How #YouToo Can Mitigate Your Risk May 15, 2018 Beginning in October 2017, when dozens of women in the entertainment industry came forward with allegations that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein had sexually harassed or assaulted them, the #MeToo Movement was launched, and soon a tidal wave of similar allegations flooded in against a long list of other prominent, high-powered men in Hollywood, the media, […] Read More
Quantitative Heat Transfer for Low-Slope Roof Membranes May 15, 2018 3 8 • RC I I n t e r f a c e Ma rc h 2 0 1 8 Editor’s note: This paper was originally published in the Proceedings of the RCI Building Envelope Technology Symposium in October 2014. INTRODUCTION Current energy and hygrothermal modeling programs account for the three forms of heat […] Read More
Recruit at the Workforce Frontier: Women and Millennials May 15, 2018 Aproblem we see for construction stakeholders is that they often try to solve current workforce development problems in the same way that they have successfully solved other problems: by implementing localized change and remaining true to the recruiting and operating practices that have made them successful. Recruiting through both high school and college alumni associations, […] Read More
