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3398 Washington Road
Atlanta, GA 30344
USA
773.398.5288
corbett@buildingperformanceworkshop.com
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.
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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In our practice of diagnostics, inspections, computer modeling, load calculations, and verifying that healthy home targets have been achieved, we use a very simple approach, and here it is. From season 2 of Home Diagnosis: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv
Now that our home is built and we're happily living in it, we're ready for the much bigger job of setting up a legacy garden and self-maintaining landscape around it. Permaculture is the design science of tuning the ecology around us, and Brandy Hall and Rebecca Baxter from Shades of Green (https://ShadesOfGreenPermaculture.com) are experts in this. Hear from them how our property might be re-tuned to transform it into a garden that requires minimal maintenance. More on this home and property at: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv/atlanta-homestead About Shades of Green Shades of Green is a regenerative landscape design, build and education firm located in Atlanta, GA. For over 10 years, Shades of Green has designed and installed regenerative outdoor spaces for commercial, residential and municipal clients that contribute to protecting biodiversity, growing food, medicine, and pollinator habitat, building soil, and restoring the water cycle. Founded by Managing Director Brandy Hall, Shades of Green is a Woman-Owned, Certified B Corporation and member of the Sustainable Sites Initiative. Find out more and become a part of the Shades of Green community at shadesofgreenpermaculture.com and on Instagram.
Our #ForeverHome is not just a marvel of scientific control, it's also stunningly beautiful thanks in large part to our design help from Kichler's Jeff Dross. Get the full tour of all the layers of lighting (ambient, task, and accent) as Grace and Corbett Lunsford go deep on details of designing, wiring, and customizing a high performance home lighting system.
See the 'how to design' video interview at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdFtY5udLKA
Learn more about this house at: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv/atlanta-homestead
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We're about to embark on our next great leap forward in our understanding of the science of homes, with the study of the physics, chemistry, and microbiology of the outdoors. Stick with us as Grace takes a 12-week Mastermind course in understanding permaculture with Atlanta's own Shades of Green (http://ShadesOfGreenPermaculture.com) and starts transforming the system of our outdoor environment for the better. More to come soon.
Join us to support our educational content and get exclusive access to us and our behind-the-scenes life: http://Patreon.com/HomeDiagnosisTV
Have you heard that face masks cannot filter something the size of a virus? Do you know how dumb that is? Would you like to know?
Viruses do not fly around by themselves- they’ll fly as part of a larger particle in the air, which you then inhale. Amazingly, it’s not just when people around you cough or sneeze that these particles are aspirated- they come out of your mouth when you breathe or laugh too.
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
Indoor Air Quality is being explored at breakneck speed with the HOMEChem Experiment, and not surprisingly, ozone (O3) is proving to be the original villain in the complex system of interactions that make the air we breathe much more worrisome than anyone guessed. Featuring HOMEChem scientists Marina Vance, Delphine Farmer, Charlie Weschler, and Richard Corsi.
More at: http://HomeDiagnosis.tv/homechem
That's a wrap on season 1 of Home Diagnosis! You can expect the episodes to be finished by our friends at ECG Productions in the coming months, to air on PBS stations everywhere by this coming winter! MASSIVE THANKS TO OUR VISIONARY TEAM OF SPONSORS:
Listening, smiling, and validating are all skills that any home performance professional must have in order to serve homeowners, architects, developers, and other contractors! Don't get so full of scientific diagnostic proof that you forget we all have to relate to each other in order to make any home improvements or performance-based building project work.