The History of the Perfect Wall (Joseph Lstiburek, 2026 Westford Symposium)
Talk title: "The History of the Perfect Wall……"
Talk title: "The History of the Perfect Wall……"
What can 24 indoor air quality sensors tell you about a single building? In this talk, I walk through a whole-building IAQ study measuring CO2, temperature, relative humidity, PM2.5, and VOCs from 1.5 feet off the floor to 27 feet up at the ridge.
Instead of the old approach of pasting Excel graphs into slides, the entire analysis and every visualization was built with Claude Code. That let the sensor data go beyond charts into real diagnoses: effective air changes per hour, infiltration rates, dew point behavior, and CO2 stratification across the space.
Talk title: "The Sound of Sausage in Swollen Standard Casings"
Talk title: "Replacing a hydro-air boiler with an air-source heat pump"
Talk title: "Designing a Cold Temperature Heat Pump for Air Quality and Comfort Management"
Talk title: "Back to the Future – Installing hydronics and air-to-water heat pumps to get fossil fuels out of buildings"
Talk title: "Clustering Stuff: The Many Benefits of Architecturally Compact Mechanical Infrastructure"
Talk title: "Taking Passive Building to New Heights: Scaling from Single-Family Homes to Multifamily Housing"
Talk title: "Buildings Move, Buildings Leak: Revisiting the Critical Link Between Engineering Mechanics and Enclosure Performance"