Labels:chat room | hakham | reckoner | sky | window OCR: Prev XaN Water Management of the Building Envelope Design Overview Water movement must be controlled by design There are many possible approaches tr achieving continuity the moisture ingress plane and these depend greatly on other design consider ations The design must utilize assemblies that have acceptable inherent water management characteristics for the particular application To ensure the integrity the building envelope weather-resistive harriers need to be integrated with other components including structure insulation, vapor retarder, air retarder and flashing systems Ir addition to water moving due to gravity. wind- driven rainwater can go up at upper levels Water can move horizontally into the building a windows heads and soffits and migra ate between adjacent surfaces due to capi ...
