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Graham Finch Principal, Building Science Specialist, RDH Building Science Victoria, BC
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Industry
Engineer
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Services offered
Building Science, Facade Engineering, Building Enclosures, Mass Timber Specialist, Moisture Management
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Has Experience with these building types:
Assembly (Worship, Restaurant, Theater, etc.), Business (Office), Civic (Recreational), Educational, Factory/Industrial (warehouse, storage, parking, etc.), Government, Hotel/Motel, Institutional, Mercantile (Retail), Mixed-Use, Multi-Family (Apartments, Condos, etc.), Student Housing, Transportation (Airports, Train or Subway Stations), Custom Innovative Residential
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Has Experience with these material types:
Mass Timber, Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT), Nail-Laminated Timber (NLT), Dowel-Laminated Timber (DLT), Glue-Laminated Timber (GLT or glulam), Timber-Frame / Post and Beam, Heavy Timber Decking, Hybrid (wood with steel or concrete), Structural Composite Lumber (e.g. LVL and LSL), Wood-Concrete Composite Systems, Light-Frame, I-joists, Lumber, Open-web trusses, Wood structural panels
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Has experience with these construction types:
I-A, I-B, II-A, II-B, III-A, III-B, IV-A, IV-B, IV-C, IV-HT, V-A, V-B
badges earned
Graham Finch, MASc, P.Eng is a Principal and Senior Building Science Specialist with RDH Building Science in Victoria, BC. Graham is a building science engineer who specializes in enclosure design, risk management, research, and investigation work for new and existing buildings. Graham also works with building product manufacturers and other clients on product research and development, and the creation of various industry guidelines and training initiatives. Graham is directly involved with the majority of RDH’s mass timber and high-rise wood building projects and instrumental in leading industry research, risk management, and façade development for these new wood buildings. As a result of this experience he is regularly invited by various organizations and clients to speak to the practical and technical issues of mass timber building enclosure design and construction.