Uses interior drainage system to carry out moisture
What is cavity and curtain walls?
adhesion of liquid to solid surface than cohesion
What is Capillary action ?
Keeps your home balanced when seasons hit
What is thermal insulation?
Soft joints all what?
What is Movement, structure, and brick expansion?
what area of a house that typically has the most trouble with condensation during the summer is the ?
What is the basement?
Requirement for materials installation
What is maintenance, durability, resistance to wind and fire and visible roof pattern, texture and color?
sheet metal, like aluminum, copper, painted galvanized steel, stainless steel, zinc alloy, terne metal or copper-clad lead
What is Concealed flashing?
what prevents heat from getting in your home?
what is insulated glass?
Stone panels fastened directly on the structures by
What are bolts, welded attachments, angle bracing, seal joints..
Collects and penetrates a wall divert to its outside by the weep holes
Depends on continuous waterproof memebrane
Rain penetration controlled by?
What is
(1) tooling mortar, joints, sealing joints around windows
(2) door openings, and sloping the horizontal surtace of sills and copings?
Rigid Foam Insulation is secured to the inner wythe of cavity walls.
What is masonry cavity wall?
May be set in mortar and tied to a concrete and masonry back up wall
What is Stone facings?
Main purpose of masonry ties
What is back up wall?
Easily sheds water
What is sloping roof?
What are chimnevs and vent pipes ?
Types of insulated materials
What is :
(1) Rigid foam
(2) loose film insulation
(3)batt insulation
(4) Blanket insulation
It’s on large panels mounted by thin slabs
On non corrosive metal framing
What is stone veneers?
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What is falling water by Frank Lloyd Wright?
Mean of combating
What is Condensation?
What are weep holes?
What are openings placed in mortar joints of facing materials at the level of flashing, to permit the escape of moisture, or openings in retaining walls to permit water to escape?
A nonstructural insulated board of foam and/or cellular glass.
What is rigid foam?
Many modern houses decorate the front of the houses and back with
What are stone veneers?

What is the Louvre Pyramid by I. M. Pei?