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Consensus Committee Meeting: The 2018 NGBS Development Consensus Committee will hold their next in-person meeting May 15-17, 2018, at the National Housing Center in Washington, D.C. For details on the meeting, the proposed revisions that will be discussed, and the entire development process, visit the NGBS development page.
With increasingly stringent energy codes, building product manufacturers are developing new products and innovative construction techniques to improve the thermal envelope. Code officials, builders, and architects want reliable thermal conductivity data. Hot Box testing is a reliable way to capture shareable, marketable data that is far superior to modeled performance.
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