The continuous air barrier yields minimal leakage, with
air tightness testing revealing only 0.3 ACH50 which is half the Passive House requirement.
No blower door test or sub-assembly
air tightness tests were conducted on the UCC test house.
Not exact matches
Final
air tightness of 1.0 ach50 was achieved after extensive
testing and leak fixing at various details, namely the joist pockets in the party walls.
As part of the
testing requirement, each home was blower door
tested to measure the
air tightness of the enclosure.
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.
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
We
tested three other homes using SIPs and all houses performed extremely well in
air tightness.