Sentences with phrase «leaky building envelope»

It could even eliminate the need for certain systems that might otherwise be required with a leaky building envelope.

Without a provincial air quality standard, there is no way of knowing whether the air within the property has been adequately remediated for such problems as leaky building envelopes, illegal grow - op activities or high levels of continued humidity that produce mould, says CREB.

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We may otherwise be giving back some of the benefits via: leaky chimney dampers; low R value masonry and metal chimneys which penetrate the building envelope (both heating and cooling penalties depending on the season); convective air currents arising from temperature differentials inside large chimneys; metal pipe air intakes which can be quite difficult to insulate, channeling cold into the envelope 24/7 during heating season; backdrafting through leaky woodstove doors; and so forth.

February 2005 — The leaky condo problem in B.C. just won't go away, as another group of high - rises experience building envelope problems.

A lot of water has passed through building envelopes since the B.C. Real Estate Association released their last leaky condo position paper in March 2001, the last leaky condo news release in April 2001 and the last leaky condo brief presented to MLAs in April 2000.