COURSE INFORMATION 

In a one-day seminar, Joseph Lstiburek will provide an entertaining and provocative examination of building investigation approaches based on a lifetime of experience..."stuff you don’t find in books."

A client has a problem. The client wants to hire you to figure it out. Where do you start? How do you do a building investigation? What do you do when you can’t find what you are looking for? What happens when you find something else? It is not unusual that the problem you often are hired to fix is not the problem you find. What are dumb tests? What are clever tests? How not to test? How to test? What do the tests mean? How to "game" stupid tests? The scientific method vs. human psychology - guess what wins? How not to look stupid in court? How to make others look stupid in court?

How do you do a water leakage investigation?
(my windows are leaking, my walls are leaking, my roof is leaking, my foundation is leaking...)

Are you even sure it is a water leakage problem?
(humidified hospitals and art gallery’s and swimming pool enclosures)

How do you do an indoor air quality investigation?
(my building makes me sick, my building smells...)

How do you do a comfort and energy investigation?
(my building is too hot, my building is too cold, my building is too dry, my building is too wet...)

How do you do a mold investigation?
(my building is moldy, my building smells moldy, is my building moldy...)

How do you do a flooring investigation or a finish investigation?
(my floor tile keep popping, my flooring is getting stained, my wood floor is buckling, my carpet has weird marks, my paint keeps falling off...)

Joseph Lstiburek will provide an entertaining and provocative examination of building investigation approaches based on a lifetime of experience… "stuff you don’t find in books." Dr. Lstiburek in the course of his career has been involved in almost all of the key commercial and residential "failure cause célèbre" issues over the past three decades: carbon monoxide poisoning, radon, hardboard siding, OSB siding, fire retardant treated plywood, EIFS, the mold litigation explosion, IAQ failures, floor finishing failures, vinyl wall coverings, building papers and housewraps, celebrity architects and now LEED. He has concluded that people are weird, women are different then men, folks don’t always tell the truth but that physics never lies. And that none of this matters to juries.

Click here for seminar description, agenda, reading material and continuing education credits.

REGISTRATION
The registration fee for the one-day “Joseph Lstiburek: Figuring Stuff Out . . .” seminar is $395 USD.
(fee includes lunch but does not include travel or accommodation)

Questions about registration should be sent to info@buildingscienceseminars.com.
Cancellation Policy: to cancel your registration, send written notice to Building Science Corporation via fax (1-978-589-5103) prior to the date of the seminar you registered for. Your registration fee will be refunded, less a $75 handling charge.

LOCATION
Delta Toronto Airport West
5444 Dixie Road
Mississauga, Ontario L4W 2L2
1-800-737-3211