Building Science
For A Cold Climate

This Canadian book gets down to the details of how buildings work in the environment.

Chapters cover peoples' requirements, weather and climate, molecules and gases, heat and radiation, thermal radiation in the environment, water in the environment, water in the air, fluids in motion, wind on buildings, heat transfer, air leakage and ventilation, water in buildings, and much more.

This is THE book for a technical overview of the real details of how building work. Things like:

• How sunlight hits the earth (and how that varies with season, time of day, clouds, and more).
• How heat flows through insulation.
• How air leaks past windows and through walls.
• How water behaves in the air (a very complicated subject).

All the measurements and units are in SI metric.

My searches at Amazon and ABE Books did not yield a copy of Building Science for a Cold Climate. I've been borrowing the copy from the Toronto Public Library. To my delight, however, I found that it is available through the legendary National Research Council of Canada's online store.