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Passive House Building Blocks: Tricky Transitions
Ben Olender of 475 High Performance Building Supply on the junctions where Passive House enclosures get hard: keeping airtightness across transitions, balancing moisture safety with drying potential, and weighing performance against constructability, in new builds and retrofits.
Key points
- Common certification challenges: airtightness, moisture safety, and cost trade-offs.
- Strategies for managing thermal bridges and complex junctions.
- Practical solutions and component options that support resilient, certifiable results.
Topics: Airtightness, Insulation and assemblies, Thermal bridges, Vapor control
