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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.

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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!

Filtering by Tag: saltwater damage

VENICE ITALY: Amazing to Visit, Insane to Maintain

Corbett Lunsford

Corbett walks you around Venice, Italy on a recent trip, and teaches the implications of building science on this beautiful city that's being torn apart by seawater. Incredible case study of a lovable place where you wouldn't want to own a home:

Become a Green Dream Groupie and get all the new videos! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=greendreamgroup Corbett welcomes you to Venice, Italy, where a battle has been fought with salt water in buildings for hundreds of years.

Capillary action is the phenomenon of water soaking upwards, like in the roots of a tree. The same happens with buildings that are founded in the sea- the moisture damage to brick, wood, and plaster can be easily seen here:

Become a Green Dream Groupie and get all the new videos! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=greendreamgroup Corbett talks with fellow building scientist Piercarlo Romagnoni about research in stopping capillary action of seawater in the world's most waterlogged city.

And once the moisture damage has torn these homes apart, they have surgery to keep them held together for the next hundred years:

Become a Green Dream Groupie and get all the new videos! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=greendreamgroup Corbett Lunsford shows you the beauty of seawater damage and centuries of age in Venice, Italy. Building science has never seemed less important.

​HIGHLY RECOMMENDED as a vacation spot, and the buildings are beautiful to see- but be careful what you invest in while you're there!

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categories From the Field, Around the World
tags building science, venice buildings, venice damage, saltwater damage, water damage, construction fail, building fail, venice fail, european construction