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Yeah, nothing too crazy in that way, but I think infiltration is just such a huge part of building load.

You know, that's a big piece.

People don't quite understand or appreciate, like,

what a big deal infiltration is.

You know, when it's zero degrees outside and that wind's blowing, I mean, that's the load.

Welcome to the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast, our regular discussion with building industry

professionals. This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb.

Today I'm joined by Mark Justome. An engineer with the Smith Group in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Well, I introduced you as an engineer there. You run the place. Am I right about that, Mark?

Can you tell me what you do there?

So I'm the office director. So I oversee kind of the Boston office of Smith Group.

We're about for a national firm. So we have like 1,200 people, 14 major offices and some smaller offices as well.

And while my background's in engineering, I haven't done actual engineering other than the

work I did in my own house.

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