Use the form on the right to contact us.
You can edit the text in this area, and change where the contact form on the right submits to, by entering edit mode using the modes on the bottom right.
Atlanta, GA
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!
Thanks to Atlas 46 for liking our work and sending us Concord pants and hats to outfit my entire crew (which is my parents)! Made in the USA, lots of places to put important stuff, and nice people too.
Corbett has made a few mistakes on one wall of this high performance house- he points out how and why this staging mistake happens in home builds all the time, and an inconvenient but effective way to fix it and ensure the performance of the envelope.
Grace and Corbett Lunsford (https://HomeDiagnosis.tv), along with Matt Risinger (http://youtube.com/mattrisinger) and Bryan Orr (http://youtube.com/hvacschool) are developing a scholarship program for training and mentoring minority professionals in the building industry. Know someone who could use a leg up on the competition by incorporating more high performance building techniques and tools?
Corbett delves into water quality control for the first time with Erik Bernal of Elite Water Systems, who gives a sneak peek into the multiple processes the Lunsfords will be using on this high performance home build to ensure water quality.
See what we've been up to on the ground, so to speak. 2” Rockwool ComfortBoard 80 getting glued to Platon dimpleboard drainage mat, with sealed top edge to ForceField sheathing WRB.
'Home Diagnosis' co-host Corbett Lunsford interviews Adam Cohen, longtime architect and builder who is now trying to synthesize high performance buildings with regenerative economics and social justice in New Zealand.
Have you ever wondered whether you should replace a home's HVAC system, or have the ducts cleaned? Spend a Healthy Indoors Minute exploring the complexity of invisible dynamics influencing any of these choices. Ductless minisplit heat pump compared with ducted split system heat pump, or furnace and A/C. Cleaning ductwork vs. cleaning house. No stone unturned in these 4 minutes of discussion. More at: http://HealthyIndoors.com
See the show at: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv
See 475's high performance Pro Clima roof membrane get installed on this 3:12 pitched roof, before the rain screen , exterior insulation, and eaves get put on. More on this project at: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv/atlanta-homestead
Get samples of these awesome building materials at: http://FourSevenFive.com
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
Corbett shows one of the tricky assemblies of the high performance home build. More at: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv/atlanta-homestead
Wonder what it's like to live in a 200 sq ft single room that's always being cleaned because it's sticky and/or wet from two amazing toddlers and two charming cats, while building a big house and making a television show and trying to make money too? Here. Here you go.
Home Diagnosis hosts Grace and Corbett Lunsford show the process of testing the gigantic old tree growing over their tiny house and normal sized new house. The question: whether to trust it and let it grow, or cut it down before it crushes important stuff. See how it works, and what the verdict was!