The Building Envelope has made the headlines a time or two here in British Columbia; unfortunately, on most occasions, for negative reasons. The fallout from the leaky condo situation of the 80’s and 90’s in Vancouver and the lower mainland and is still being experienced throughout.
For those of you that are not aware, the building envelope is the physical separators between the conditioned and unconditioned environment of a building including the resistance to air, heat, light, noise transfer, and of course, water. The importance of the buildings envelope and encasing the interior of a building from external factors cannot be understated.
This importance is why in 1990 the British Columbia Building Envelope Council (BCBEC) was registered under the Societies’ Act. The BCBEC is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing a platform for proponents of the building industry to discuss issues and exchange information on building envelope issues. It has 350 members and is composed of all segments of the industry including government, consultants in the building envelope field, product manufacturers, manufacturing associations, contractors, and educators.
On Thursday February 19th, the BCBEC is hosting a half-day workshop at the Italian Cultural Centre Society in Vancouver. The half day workshop will focus on the design, construction, maintenance and remediation of basements and parkades in residential buildings. Industry leaders will be on hand to discuss code requirements, soil condition assessments, building systems, remediation strategies, and depreciation reports. Presentations will showcase recent research studies in single and multi-unit residential buildings.
Part of the workshop is a tradeshow of technologies, associations and companies aimed at benefiting the building envelope. Kryton will be on hand to show how Kryton’s innovative Krystol technology can increase a building envelope’s ability to resist external factors. Kryton technology has specifically been used in parkade applications with great success.
The half-day workshop gets underway at 7:00 am – if you’re going, come by the Kryton booth where Western Canada Territory Manager, John Andersen will be available to answer any and all of your questions.