{"id":109799,"date":"2015-04-15T08:48:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T08:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=46bf635c0bfa5cbc8fc96725e2cb075f"},"modified":"2015-04-15T08:48:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T08:48:21","slug":"an-interview-with-building-science-pioneer-terry-brennan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/an-interview-with-building-science-pioneer-terry-brennan\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interview with Building Science Pioneer Terry Brennan"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Prime:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                     prime        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    Stories from the early days of building science and more        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/interview-building-science-pioneer-terry-brennan\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/terry-brennan-abaa-conference-dallas-2015.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Terry Brennan\" width=\"144\" height=\"108\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last week I got a chance to sit down and talk with Terry Brennan in Dallas at the <span>Air Barrier<\/span><span>Building assembly components that work as a system to restrict air flow through the building envelope. Air barriers may or may not act as a vapor barrier. The air barrier can be on the exterior, the interior of the assembly, or both.<\/span> Association of America&rsquo;s annual conference. He may not be as famous as Joe Lstiburek, but he&rsquo;s every bit the building science pioneer. Armed with a physics degree, the <span>ASHRAE<\/span><span>American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).<br \/>\nInternational organization dedicated to the advancement of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration through research, standards writing, publishing, and continuing education. Membership is open to anyone in the HVAC&amp;R field; the organization has about 50,000 members.<br \/>\n<\/span> <em>Handbook of Fundamentals<\/em>, and a desire to reduce the environmental impact of buildings, he built houses and wrote energy modeling computer programs back in the 1970s and &lsquo;80s. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/interview-building-science-pioneer-terry-brennan\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3437,13083,4716,11985,13084,13085],"class_list":["post-109799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-building-science","tag-energy-model","tag-history","tag-infiltration","tag-solar-home","tag-terry-brennan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}