Sentences with phrase «building air tightness»

For 30 Innovation, projects complying with Passive House automatically comply Best Practice requirements in «Exceeding Green Star Benchmarks: Building Air Tightness» innovation under «Commissioning and Tuning» and gain 2 pts

Not exact matches

An air tightness level 20 times better than Building Regulations recommend was achieved by running workshops with the designers to develop robust details, helping the contractor, Thomas Vale, to reach this outcome.

There are significant changes in building envelope, air - tightness, service water heating, and ventilation requirements.

That's because it is built to the Passive House / Passivhaus standard, which combines superinsulation, compact form, no thermal bridges and serious air tightness.

The performance of the building fabric - insulation, air tightness, and heat recovery ventilation - plays a vital role not expensive and unproven technology.

The testing assessed thermal insulation quality by infrared imaging, building envelope and air distribution system air - tightness by fan pressurization and tracer gas, pressure effects inside the house due to interactions of the air distribution system, calculated versus measured building load coefficients by co-heating, and building thermal decay by cool - down.

(4) Shaw, C.Y. and Tamura, G.T.; Studies on Exterior Wall Air Tightness and Air Infiltration of Tall Buildings, ASHRAE Transactions, Vol 82, 1976.

By Floris Keverling Buisman, Four Seven Five Automated blowerdoor test according to EN13829 with DG700 manometer controlled by laptop Building air - tightness that is below 0.6 air changes per

CLT and its precise manufacturing and milling creates exceptional air tightness, and its dimensional stability helps ensure the building remains airtight over time.

To put this in context, there is no current requirement for air tightness in Building Regulations / Standards in Cyprus.