THE VIDEO SHELF · building science
Distinguished Lecturer Series: Building Science - Adventures in Building Science
A Berkeley Lab Distinguished Lecturer talk on building science, with an expert covering control layers, insulation and vapour barrier placement, and how buildings fail. The delivery is humorous.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters cite it as an authoritative, entertaining source on building science, such as insulation placement and why LEED point priorities miss the mark.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Berkeley Lab
- Topic
- building science
- Format
- lecture
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 6
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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