Credit: 1 PDH Webinar
Webinar: 57 minutes
Webinar Price: $30.00
The Building Envelope 28:52 minutes
Now that your house is framed, it needs a building envelope that can shed rainwater and melting snow, and also keep precipitation from entering through the foundation. Learn about the five integrated layers of protection: shingles and cladding, drainage plane, insulation, vapor barrier, and drywall.
Site Design and Storm Runoff 29:04 minutes
What happens to the precipitation that falls on your house, your lot, and your neighbors’ properties? Study the problem of site design, focusing on how storm runoff is directed away from homes and returned to a natural watercourse, without causing flooding along the way.
By the end of this course the student will learn about five integrated layers of protections: shingles and cladding, drainage plane, insulation, vapor barrier, and drywall. By the end of this course the student will be able to understand the problem of site design focusing on storm runoff.