Speaker 1: Furring strips are, well I'm not a
construction person, but they're used, as I understand it, they're used as like standards on a
wall and then you put wallboard on top of them or something like that, don't hold me to this, but they're
thin pieces of wood, they're not heavy like 2 × 4's.
An outline of the seminar content includes the history of single leaf masonry in Ireland; the importance of effective insulation; historical problems with single leaf masonry; single leaf versus cavity
wall construction; advancements in single leaf masonry — ETICS; aircrete and solid masonry
construction; and
thin joint technology.