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Home Why I Am a Wingnut and Maybe You Should Be Too
When it comes to building performance, Peter Yost is a true guru. Peter channels his passion for understanding how buildings work into investigative practices and simulations he calls "wingnut testing." He's trained countless industry professionals and students at Yale University and University of Massachusetts with real-world insights and data from his 30 years in the industry as an Accredited Building Enclosure Commissioning Process Provider. According to Peter, Building Science Wingnuts take materials testing into their own hands. Standardized product testing is done in a pristine laboratory, but Wingnuts put materials to the test in ways that help prove it can (or can't) work in dirty, wet, and often cold field conditions. Wingnuts think (and work) outside the box and may even come up with building innovations, like window installations...
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