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The Fine Homebuilding Podcast

Podcast 539: Members-only Aftershow—Building Science Training

The crew talks about building science education for tradespeople and where to find it.

By Kiley Jacques, Patrick McCombe, Ian Schwandt
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Podcast 539: Members-only Aftershow—Building Science Training
The crew talks about building science education for tradespeople and where to find it.
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      Ian, Kiley, and Patrick talk about training classes and educational resources available to learn more about building science.

      Related Links:

      • Builders’ Guide to Cold Climates book
      • GBA’s Detail Library
      • Bill Rose’s Water and Buildings book

      Building Science for the Trades Resources:

      • Sustainable Home Building Accelerator Series
      • Pretty Good House Online Training Series – GreenBuildingAdvisor
      • Travis’ BS symposiums
      • NESEA Building Energy conferences
      • Efficiency Vermont’s Better Buildings conference
      • Passive House Accelerator’s offerings
      • Baczek and Bruton’s UnBuildIt podcast
      • Yestermorrow Design/Build School
      • EMU’s Passive House trainings
      • Christine’s BS for Architects course
      • The BS+Beer Show
      • Local BS_+Beer meetups

       



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