Every business has been forced to make some tough choices over the last year and a half, whether it was in manpower, materials or equipment (or all of the above).
The building envelope’s main function is to act as a filter between the exterior environment and the building indoors, but as technologies have evolved and the urgent need to reduce buildings emissions and overall energy consumption has grown, the role of the envelope has now become more complex.
Water sustains all life on earth. But it is also nature’s universal solvent. Water causes more building enclosure failures than any other agent. Whether a failure results from excessive metal corrosion, or the spalling or displacement of masonry or concrete elements, water is often the prime catalyst.
If
you spend any time working with specifiers, end-users, designers and
contractors who are involved with EIFS, you’ll find out right away that the
environmental friendliness (“eco-friendliness”) of EIFS is a hot topic.
Building design and construction is complex, time consuming, and expensive. Buildings require a huge amount of materials and resources to create, and gobs of energy to operate. Complexity, time, and expense have steadily increased over the decades.
I may not be David Letterman but I have a Top 10 list of my own. Top Ten you ask? After 13 years of site inspections for building owners, architects and contractors, I kept seeing the same mistakes again and again.
All exterior claddings are unique but no exterior cladding is more unique than cement plaster. Cement plaster (stucco) is applied in a soft plastic like state, following any form or shape so desired and then allowed to set to a hard, durable, long-lasting finish.
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