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Advanced residential construction and home improvement consulting and owner's advocacy in Atlanta, using the latest building performance diagnostic and modeling techniques and tools. Airtightness, insulation, HVAC, ventilation, moisture, and air quality and EMF consulting for homeowners and building professionals alike.

Videos/Podcasts/Articles

Home performance articles and stories from the field with internationally respected building forensics guru Corbett Lunsford at the Building Performance Workshop. Hear new episodes of the Building Performance Podcast, see new videos from the Home Performance YouTube channel, and learn all about how diagnostic testing (more than an 'Energy Audit') can make home improvement and new home construction a proven process!

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Why Do We Build Homes Like This? Matt Risinger on Building Performance Podcast #89

Corbett Lunsford

As part of our upcoming Season Two of 'Home Diagnosis' TV, we sat down with high performance home builder and YouTube celebrity Matt Risinger to discuss the deep-down parts of the home building and contracting industry and this career choice. Hear about the obstacles and conflicts that keep builders from embracing scientific advances, and see a side of Matt you don't often get to see when he's on camera for The Build Show (https://www.buildshownetwork.com/).

Subscribe to Matt's YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFCTrfb1JUJjs3Im8OZDtBw

Check out the 'Home Diagnosis' TV series: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv

Podcast 87: Ventilation Codes and What We’re Missing with Joseph Hillenmeyer of Aprilaire

Corbett Lunsford

Anybody who has followed this channel knows that ventilation is important in homes- but how much, what kind, and what's enforced or recommended? This guy knows- Joseph Hillenmeyer at Aprilaire is deeply involved in the communities of builders, contractors, testers, and consumers who are impacted by the pieces of ventilation equipment. Here's where we are right now.

Learn more about Aprilaire ventilation systems at: http://Aprilaire.com

To help support our work educating on the science of homes, please become a member: http://Patreon.com/HomeDiagnosisTV

Science of Home Quarantine Pt 1: COVID-19 Pandemic Medical/Chemical Impacts Indoors

Corbett Lunsford

Please consider supporting our work in the frontier of making the science of homes mainstream at: http://Patreon.com/HomeDiagnosisTV

If we were guinea pigs for indoor chemistry and home performance dynamics before this Coronavirus pandemic, how much more so now that we're all spending almost 100% of our time inside our homes? In this first part of a three-part series with Healthy Indoors Magazine, hear a discussion of the home performance dynamic impacts this quarantine period is having on us all.

Featuring Dr. Michelle Sanborn, MD, Joe Medosch of Hayward Score (http://HaywardScore.com), Dr. Delphine Farmer PhD of HOMEChem, and Bob Krell of Healthy Indoors.

Resource 1: Ventilation can be as effective as mitigating as vaccination coverage of 50% to 60%! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-38825-y.pdf

Resource 2: Is low indoor humidity a driver for healthcare-associated infections? https://www.isiaq.org/docs/Papers/Paper340.pdf

Resource 3: How Long Will Coronavirus Live on Surfaces or in the Air Around You? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/health/coronavirus-surfaces-aerosols.html?referringSource=articleShare

Resource 4: Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1 https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMc2004973?articleTools=true

Resource 5: Why Soap Works https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/health/soap-coronavirus-handwashing-germs.html

In Part Two of our three-part panel discussion, hear a sometimes very in-the-weeds exploration of the community impacts within our buildings. Featuring public health specialist Dr. David Krause, PhD (https://www.healthcarecontractingconsulting.com), indoor environmental expert Scott Armour (https://armourappliedscience.com/), HVAC investigator and hygienist Tim Hebert (https://www.apsihc.com/), and Bob Krell of Healthy Indoors.

The final session in this panel discussion series from March 19, 2020 dives pretty deeply into technical niches of cleaning and disinfecting commercial, industrial, and healthcare facilities. Featuring IAQ and retrocommissioning expert Kristofer Anderson, PE , outbreak and chemical expert Cole Stanton (http://ICPgroup.com), and building investigator Bob Krell.

See the first-ever TV series about the science of homes at: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv

Subscribe to Healthy Indoors Magazine at: http://HealthyIndoors.com

Assess your home's health at: http://HaywardScore.com

Podcast #86: COVID-19 and the Science of Home Quarantine

Corbett Lunsford

In this special episode, Corbett teams up with Healthy Indoors Magazine to bring you a panel of experts discussing the science of 100% of people staying at home 100% of the time.

Featuring public health expert Dr. Michelle Sanborn, MD, environmental chemist Delphine Farmer, and indoor environmental consultants Bob Krell of Healthy Indoors and Joe Medosch from Hayward Score.

Please support our work at: http://Patreon.com/HomeDiagnosisTV

Get your home's health assessed right now, for free, at: http://HaywardScore.com

Subscribe to Healthy Indoors right now, for free, at: http://HealthyIndoors.com

Building Performance Podcast #85

Corbett Lunsford

Today Corbett and Grace address several more questions about building science and home performance from homeowners and pros across the U.S. See the show at: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv Become a supporting member of their work at: http://Patreon.com/HomeDiagnosis.tv

Building Science in Alaska: Home Energy Minute

Corbett Lunsford

Home Diagnosis co-host Corbett Lunsford interviews Griffin Hagle, building science expert, housing authority leader, and journalist, about controlling home performance in northernmost coastal Alaska.

Follow Griffin on Instagram: https://instagram.com/mythicalbeastmode

Read 35 year's worth of home performance articles at: http://HomeEnergy.org

Join the Building Performance Association at: http://Building-Performance.org

Building Science Podcast features HOMEChem

Corbett Lunsford

Corbett and Kristof Irwin from Positive Energy Austin dive deep into the revolution that's brewing. Building Science will never be the same after the HOMEChem Experiment shows us the 4-dimensional chess game that's happening at a molecular level inside every building and vehicle in the world.

Subscribe to the Building Science Podcast on iTunes or any other podcast platform. More at: https://positiveenergy.pro/building-science-podcast/2018/9/20/0asmwbpk31r3ced6myrqjjeg9smvy4

Podcast #83 Affordable Housing That Kicks McMansions' Butts with Bill Lazar

Corbett Lunsford

Today Corbett talks with Bill Lazar of St. Johns Housing Partnership about how his organization built hundreds of affordable homes in St. Augustine, Florida, that are scientifically superior to the million dollar mansions going up across town. Recorded from the #TinyLab on the Proof Is Possible Tour.

PODCAST #81: Keep Asking Questions with Hap Haven

Corbett Lunsford

Today Corbett talks with Hap Haven of US Green Home about where home performance contractors come from and where we're going (and how not to crash and burn on the way there). Sponsored by the Building Performance Workshop's 6-Week Mastermind Distance Course and Home Performance for Tiny Spaces course.

PODCAST #78: John Krigger on Home Performance WINS and FAILS

Corbett Lunsford

Today Corbett talks with home performance legend John Krigger, author of several books including Residential Energy, about how home performance professionals are winning and failing at helping clients with their homes.  Sponsored by Fall Fast Track, the 6-week mastermind course for home performance professionals.

To download this episode or hear more, subscribe in iTunes or visit BuildingPerformancePodcast.com