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Oct 22, 2026
Building Plans Need Better Grammar with John Straube
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1:54Nick FalkoffHOST
So can you trace a little bit of the evolution of like your research and then this type of research and sort of like how that informs what we're doing here and what summer camp's about?
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2:06John StraubeGUEST
Building science is still a sort of emerging field and it means different things to many different people.
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2:12John StraubeGUEST
Uh, I was lucky that my, um, one of my professors at the university, uh, was a really early adopter in Canada of doing building science research.
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2:23John StraubeGUEST
And he, uh, assembled some funding to build a test hut to measure the drying rates of wood frame walls.
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2:32John StraubeGUEST
Um, experiencing lots of problems in the 1990s with, uh, built-in construction, moisture, vapor barriers, air barriers, all those things.
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36:18Nick FalkoffHOST
Like, when did it start in your eyes? And, like, where are we in the evolution of the training?