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Let’s say you’re planning to build a custom house. Do you care what type of foundation your house will have? Some homeowners leave this decision to the designer or builder.…

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School Water Often Goes Untested for Lead

Schools in 35 states are not required to test their drinking water for lead, research by The Center for Green Schools has found. In the remaining 15 states and the…

Building Science

More Wingnut Testing of Basement Waterproofing

In the first round of Wingut testing of negative side waterproofing, I was pretty focused on how various interior basement waterproofing systems dealt with hydrostatic pressure. But in recent workshops…

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The Curious Case of the Imploding Windows

In 2008, a Dutchman named L. Korn found himself in Toronto buying windows for a house he was building back in the Netherlands. Unavailable at the time in Europe, the…

Building Science

Ranking Indoor Air Pollutants

That face above is of a physician, alchemist, and astrologer named Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim. He is deemed the father of toxicology and is better known by the…

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