The IBC has required a water-resistive barrier behind exterior wall cladding ever since the first edition in 2000.

Underfloor spaces (commonly referred to as “crawl spaces”) are concealed spaces below a building that requires, among other things, ventilation for proper building performance.

A Sound Attenuating Fire Blanket (SAFB) is a type of wall insulation developed to help solve two different problems in wall construction.

In the United States and much of the world, the need for clean energy is increasing the appeal of adding solar panel systems to existing buildings.

In the design of buildings, one of the first and most important efforts to be undertaken by the design architect is to appropriately classify the building to one of the five regulated construction types as detailed in the building code.