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Pennsylvania Housing Research Center Conference - Housing Track

PHRC 24th Annual PA Housing & Land Development Conference March 2nd-3rd, 2016

 

The Pennsylvania Housing and Research Center presents the 24th Annual Housing and Land Development Conference will be held on March 2-3, 2016 at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel in State College, PA as part of the 2016 Industry Education Week.

Builders, remodelers, code officials, design professionals and home performance contractors will gather to expand their knowledge with the latest updates in the residential construction industry.  Topics include: Insulation in High Performance Housing, Emerging HVAC Technologies, and Water Resistant Barriers.   The full schedule of events for Housing Day is available here.

ThermalBuck™ is proud to be one of the sponsors of this professional development event, and will display our wall section to show exactly how ThermalBuck™ outperforms traditional wood bucks to build a better building envelope.  

Performance -Thermal Image wood buck vs. ThermalBuck

Thermal Bridging – The Impact of ThermalBuck

A picture says a thousand words. We’ve all heard that one before – but it’s easy to see what it’s saying as we put ThermalBuck High-Performance ROESE to the test against a traditional wood window buck.

Thermal bridging is one of the biggest heat-loss issues every structure faces.  Wall assemblies can be packed inside and out with insulation, but one of the most challenging areas to prevent thermal bridging is where the wall assembly interfaces with the fenestration materials.

Using thermal imaging, we measured the performance of ThermalBuck against wood. Read more