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Publication Review

Title: Basement Insulation Systems
Author: Building Sciences Corporation, 2002
File: Free Book, PDF 721 KB, 20 pages
Audience: Written for architects, designer, builders and homeowners with minimal to some understanding of insulation issues.

Review
If you want to know the how and why of basement insulation without a degree in physics, check out this book. Thorough description of the techniques and related issues surrounding basement insulation strategies. Includes a simplified discussion about heat transfer physics and moisture dynamics in basement walls.

Issues covered include:

• the problems associated with basement insulation
• energy star practices
• insulation locations possible
• simplified physics of moisture movement, air leakage, heat transfer
• mold
• the effects of insulating basement walls
• requirements for basement wall insulation
• insulation strategies that meet the proposed criteria
• insulating precast concrete walls
• current practices for Energy Star and Building America
• cost comparisons
• fire testing
  

Detail drawings include:

• diagrams showing possible insulation placement locations
• interior stud framing detail
• interior blanket detail
• simplified diagrams of heat, moisture, air transfer
• insulation strategy wall sections
• below grade water management wall sections

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