Eric Turcotte is a Project Engineer at Horizon Engineering Associates and provides building enclosure commissioning services. With over 10 years of experience in the field of building enclosure, Eric has acquired a unique insight on how building enclosure systems perform and interact together, and how they should be detailed, specified and installed to achieve their intended level of performance.
This article presents two examples of deficient installation of a simple architectural detail, the brick veneer relief angle, and discusses how a well conducted Building Enclosure Commissioning process can help prevent such failures
