Following up on our earlier post celebrating our most recent award-winning project, Harvey and Kay’s “Pleasant Future Vision” PHIUS+ Zero certified passive house home, we continue to take you behind the scenes revealing some of the high performance assemblies employed on this amazing project. Bringing the building envelope exploration to the envelope penetrations. When considering the four key control layers of the home (water, air, vapor and thermal) water is the most important. We might have an insanely great wall assembly, but then we go and put holes in it and call them doors and windows! The key to allowing successful envelope penetrations is careful air sealing and flashing. It has been said that there are only two kinds of windows; windows that leak and windows that will leak! In this home we employed a flashing strategy combined with an integrated rain screen designed to address both ‘types’ of windows. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/3XhFrCu