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ADRIAN SMITH + GORDON GILL - WILLOW CREEK COMMUNITY CHURCH

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Keeping Moisture Out of the Window Area

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Sara Beardsley of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill takes you inside the Willow Creek Community Church, a 72,000 square foot worship facility in Illinois. She’ll walk you through how the team is using EIFS amongst other specifics. Watch along as animations bring her explanations of joists, trusses, and columns to life.   

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Same with the EIFS, the EIFS actually has the ability to weep water out the bottom. It is a drainable system, and that's a code requirement actually, and it helps to keep the building from having any chance of getting mold or water damage. So the gaps are there on purpose between the interface, between the two systems.

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