Journal
BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT
Volume 38, Issue 12, Pages 1367-1379Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-1323(03)00139-2
Keywords
moisture reference years; boundary conditions; building envelope; climate; hygrothermal modeling
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Recent history has documented the premature failures of building envelopes in various regions-in North America most notably on the West Coast and the East Coast. The MEWS Consortium, a project undertaken by IRC and its partners, has addressed this issue in detail. The strategy for answering these questions was based on predicting the moisture management performance of wall systems as a function of climate, wall construction, and material proper-ties through mathematical modeling. A key task was to determine what years to use as input for the simulations. Moisture Reference Years were selected using a Moisture Index approach developed for MEWS. This paper will develop the approach and compare it with other methods of selecting moisture reference years for hygrothermal simulations. (C) 2003 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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