Technical Dinner Meeting: Cold Storage Condensation Challenges and Cures
Powell Street Convention Center 2000 Powell Street, Second Floor, Emeryville, CA, United StatesInsulated 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...