A recent report titled “The Green Outlook 2011: Green Trends Driving Growth through 2015,” by Harvey M. Bernstein, paints a very rosy picture for green building growth in the coming years.
Subcontractors everywhere are scrambling for work, and what work they’re managing to land isn’t very profitable, but there’s at least one little silver lining amid all the clouds.
Expanded polystyrene insulation and polyisocyanurate foam polyiso are the two main insulation types used in EIFS in North America. Overseas, many other types of insulation are used to make EIFS, such a mineral wool and “glass foam.”
Last year, one of my frequent golf buddies called me in a panic: two corners of a small piece of wallboard attached to his garage ceiling had come loose. Could I come over and look at it before it fell on his car?
Founded in 1866, Minnesota’s Carleton College was the dream of pioneers who believed that knowledge was the real frontier. And this pioneering spirit endures.
A new type of ceramic coating now on the market is not only completely VOC-free but is also promising to deliver an abrasion-, corrosion-, high-temperature, and chemical-resistant finish that can be applied in a high build, single coat with no primer by a licensed contractor.
Weathering the storm was all any of us could think about during the 1996 EIFS moisture intrusion crisis. It all started in a lovely upscale neighborhood in Wilmington, N.C. Almost overnight, class-action lawsuits against the EIFS manufacturers, distributors and those hard-working applicators were making headlines across the country.
As it pertains to stucco installations, the International Codes require “a water-resistive vapor permeable barrier with a performance at least equivalent to two layers of Grade D paper” on wood-based sheathings.
So much change and yet so much remains the same. For years, the codes referred to this mystical product as the “weather” resistive barrier but the new I-Codes deemed it more appropriate to call it the “water” resistive barrier.
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