Building testing is as unique as each building that is built. This presentation shows applying airtightness testing requirements and protocol in unusual building environments with three case studies: a dry room with an unfortunate event, a LEED building with USACE specifications, and a historic building campus renovated into living units. Each case explores how to make construction testing work and the obstacles to overcome.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the airtightness building testing requirements and protocol in each setting with the testing standards.
2. Apply airtightness building testing to a dry room in a building addition with stringent test
   result requirements and re-testing due to a leak event.
3. Apply airtightness building testing to a building built with USACE specifications and LEED
   requirements, without test result requirements, but with a testing glitch
4. Apply airtightness building testing to a historic building campus renovated into living units with no test result requirements, but with an infrared camera and smoke pencil.

Pamela Jergenson, FCSI, CDT, CCS, CCCA, BECxP, CxA+BE, CABS, Braun Intertec Corporation

Pam Jergenson is a Principal Consultant and BECx Technical Manager for the Building Sciences Group at Braun Intertec Corporation. She is an accredited Building Enclosure Commissioning Agent and Process Provider who has worked in the construction industry focusing on building enclosures for over the last 30 years. Pam’s work includes writing and updating building enclosure design standards for the State of Minnesota Real Estate Construction Services and the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. She is a trained whole building airtightness technician, a licensed air barrier field auditor, and a certified construction document technologist, specification writer, and construction contract administrator. Her portfolio of work includes the sectors of commercial, hospitals, multi-family, higher education, K-12, federal, state, county, and city governments, and
private businesses.