Steven Pedracine CSI, CDT, CEI is executive director of the
Minnesota Lath & Plaster Bureau, located in St. Paul, Minn.
He can be reached at (651) 645-0208.
It was in August of 2004 that architect Burnell Olson, of Adkins Association Architects Inc., asked the Bureau to meet at the St. Paul Little Sisters House, to discuss some of the more obvious issues afflicting the exterior wall facade of this structure that was built in 1976.
WUFI is an acronym for "Wärme und Feuchte Instationär." What's that? In English it means "transient heat and moisture transport." Does that make more sense? How about this: WUFI is a two-dimensional transient wall system hygrothermal simulation program.