Window Receptors: Notes From the Field
March 03, 2019
By Don Kilpatrick The popularity of condominium living in large metropolitan areas has engendered a well-established part of our cityscapes, with fierce competition to see who can deliver the best views, towering over adjacent buildings, boroughs, coastlines, and parks. Those with means can freely invest in housing with million-dollar views. Developers and builders, however, often […]
RCI Supports ASTM E06/D08 Joint Symposium
August 23, 2018
RCI is a sponsor of the ASTM E06/D08 Joint Symposium on Building Science and the Physics of Building Enclosure Performance. This is a two-part event that will take place in October and December of 2018 in Washington, D.C. Part one, E06 Performance of Buildings, will occur on October 21 and 22, 2018, at the Washington […]
Technical Articles: 2015-2020
July 24, 2018
Below is an interactive table of technical articles (including convention and BES papers) starting in January of 2015 and running up to the most recent available articles. You can click any column to sort by that column, and click it a second time to sort descending. You can also type in the search box, either […]
RCI Manual of Practice Goes Digital
May 18, 2018
One of the many changes afoot here at HQ is the initiative to put fewer of our documents on paper and instead make them available digitally. The RCI Manual of Practice is now available exclusively as an interactive PDF. You can jump to various sections from the table of contents, search the document, and access […]
Tiled Shower Walls are Comparable to Clad Exterior Walls
May 03, 2018
Introduction In many ways, ceramic-tiled shower walls can be investigated and evaluated in the same manner as clad exterior walls. Both rainwater and plumbed interior water have the same potential to promote decay, deterioration, and fungal growth via unintended breaches in a wall’s water-protective envelope. In all cases, the most severe levels of internal damage […]