«It's been a journey together working on retrofit for the last eight years — getting used to the idea of what's effective, what's cost - effective, and to trial ideas on relatively small contracts, and to be thinking
about airtightness, thermal bridging and ensuring we get adequate ventilation.
67 % of readers enquired
about airtightness products, making it the most popular enquiry; Next came insulation on 65 %, with passive house & low energy build systems neck and neck with heat recovery ventilation on 57 %; 47 % of people enquired about rainwater harvesting, making it the most popular non-energy related category; 80 % of readers enquired about one or more types of renewable energy technology.
Make it Tight: Building Enclosure
Airtightness Training In this 4 hour comprehensive introduction to building airtightness and air sealing, attendees will gain detailed knowledge about theory, details, strategies, and practical applications of building enclosure
Airtightness Training In this 4 hour comprehensive introduction to building
airtightness and air sealing, attendees will gain detailed knowledge about theory, details, strategies, and practical applications of building enclosure
airtightness and air sealing, attendees will gain detailed knowledge
about theory, details, strategies, and practical applications of building enclosure air sealing.
Putting aside concerns
about some of the assumptions in Deap — for instance assuming air permeability of homes without
airtightness test results, when the evidence indicates that homes built in the second half of the 20th century may be much leakier than pre-war homes — HPAI's SEAI liaison officer John O'Shaughnessy said: «Deap is the preferred tool of the department and has proven to work on a lot of social and fuel poor energy upgrades in the past.»