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Flood Resistant Construction and Cleanup
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If you can't build to stay dry, build to tolerate wet. In this episode of 7 Minutes of BS, 'Dr. Joe' Lstiburek, PhD , P. Eng, ASHRAE Fellow, and founding principal of Building Science Corporation explains why flood water cleanup is critical, and how to rebuild with tolerance in mind. Flood resistant construction is two things: One approach is to build above the flood level, and it doesn't matter. That's an insanely logical way of doing it, you don't have to use special materials once you get above the flood level. The second is that you assume the materials in the assembly are going to get wet, and saturated, so you build it in such a way that it is easy to dry and clean the building and pout it back together after the event happens.
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