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Moisture Performance of High-R Wall Systems

Publication Date
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Author(s)
Kochkin Vladimir,
Shah Nay B
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Organization(s)
Home Innovation Research Labs,
HIRL,
U.S. Department of Energy,
DOE
Description
The next generation of building enclosures is a key step toward achieving high-performance goals through decreasing energy load demand and enabling advanced space-conditioning systems. Yet the adoption of high-R enclosures and particularly high-R walls has been a slow-growing trend because...