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Foam Free High Performance Building Enclosures

A practical guide to high-performance building enclosures without foam: why foam insulation is seen as hindering air, vapor, and thermal control, health, and sustainability goals, and how practitioners build without it.

Key points

  • What sets high-performance enclosures apart, and how that is changing.
  • Practitioners' concerns about foam insulation.
  • How a foam-free enclosure can meet high-performance goals.
  • Practical methods for building a foam-free high-performance enclosure.

Topics: Embodied carbon, Insulation and assemblies

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