Technical Dinner Meeting: Cold Storage Condensation Challenges and Cures

Powell Street Convention Center 2000 Powell Street, Second Floor, Emeryville, CA, United States

Insulated metal panels (IMP) are often used to form exterior walls of cold-storage buildings. The panels are near perfect vapor barriers. Joints between panels and flashings applied to panels, not so much. When water vapor finds a way in, it condenses on the first surface it contacts below its dewpoint. The condensed water accumulates until...

Technical Dinner: Exterior Elevated Elements – Current Discussion and Recommendations

Powell Street Convention Center 2000 Powell Street, Second Floor, Emeryville, CA, United States

TECHNICAL DINNER MEETING: 01 November, 2023 Exterior Elevated Elements: Current Discussion and Recommendations Presented by: Kelly Cobeen Principal at Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc. Synopsis: Following the 2015 collapse of a Berkeley, California balcony that resulted in fatalities, there has been much activity in the engineering, building envelope and regulatory arenas regarding exterior elevated elements...