Writing in the latest edition of Building Science Insights, Joe Lstiburek focuses on resilient of roof systems, aiming to make a difference in our understanding as efficiently as he can break it down for us .
As he describes his purpose in this article:
We are going to look at roofs … not because they are easy or hard … but because they see the greatest stress from wind and rain and wildfire. I am going to focus on wind because if the roof blows away, it is kind or dumb to worry about rain. So wind on roofs that have lots of insulation. And we are going to limit the insulation approaches to get a few elegant (“hopefully”) principles across without taking up a lot of space. If you “get it” you can apply it all over the place.