Sentences with phrase «as airtightness»

The buildings were carefully detailed for buildability, toolbox training was delivered for site operatives by Barry Durkan, and renowned airtightness expert Roman Szypura of Clioma House — who had served as airtightness contactor on phase two — acted as airtight consultant.

Not exact matches

In a range of naturally ventilated homes with airtightness ranging from 5 to 20 ach @ 50Pa, winter air exchange rates were estimated to vary between 0.2 and 0.7 ach — and the ventilation rate was not closely related to airtightness, which casts doubt on the long standing assumption that infiltration can be seen as part of the ventilation strategy.2

When it came to upgrading an old stone - walled building to the Enerphit standard — with all the inherent challenges such an upgrade poses for energy, airtightness and moisture — who better to have as your client and defacto site manager than a professor of physics?

As Janet Cotterell of Passivhaus Homes explains, there was a pre-designed set of details, worked out carefully for minimal thermal bridging and ease of airtightness installation, so much of the design work had already been done.

We felt that as the majority of the insulation was external, and outside the airtightness line, the moisture risks due to interstitial condensation would be reduced,» Patrick Osborne explained.

Achieving passive house airtightness is a huge challenge for any retrofit, and even more so when, as in this case, the structure is shared with neighbouring buildings.

In terms of Airtightness, a maximum of 0.6 air changes per hour at 50 Pascals pressure (ACH50), as verified with an onsite pressure test (in both pressurized and depressurized states).

So it's refreshing to find that the designer of this contemporary Dublin home put so much attention on insulation, airtightness and indoor air quality — as well as good looks.

Following airtightness, 475 focuses on related components such as high - efficiency ventilation by Lunos, ecological insulation by GUTEX and FOAMGLAS, triple - pane roof openings by LAMILUX and FAKRO, and Passive House energy balance software by the Passive House Institute — all complementary and essential elements in making high - performance buildings.

As Lloyd points out, the «Superinsulated» house was really the origin and (along with airtightness) is the foundation of Passive House.

«We went for a masonry construction as we could parge the inside which made it easier to reach the airtightness target,» Meaden explains.

«We wanted to achieve a high level of airtightness and also ventilation, to achieve as close to [the passive house standard] as possible.

1 As work progresses on the foundations, a plate compactor is used to ensure a solid, stable base for the concrete slab; 2 pouring the concrete slab; 3 a cross-section of the wall build - up showing wet dash finish followed inside by external insulation, 215 mm solid block walls, sand - cement plaster and insulated plasterboard internally; 4 airtightness detailing around joist ends; 5 pro clima Intello airtightness system under counter battens to create a service void while minimising airtight layer damage by service penetrations; 6 a parge coat serves as the airtight layer on the inner face of the single leaf block wallAs work progresses on the foundations, a plate compactor is used to ensure a solid, stable base for the concrete slab; 2 pouring the concrete slab; 3 a cross-section of the wall build - up showing wet dash finish followed inside by external insulation, 215 mm solid block walls, sand - cement plaster and insulated plasterboard internally; 4 airtightness detailing around joist ends; 5 pro clima Intello airtightness system under counter battens to create a service void while minimising airtight layer damage by service penetrations; 6 a parge coat serves as the airtight layer on the inner face of the single leaf block wallas the airtight layer on the inner face of the single leaf block walls.

In the backstop house, we modelled all the minimum backstop values for insulation, windows, airtightness and renewable energy and used a gas boiler as the heating source.

At first glance that temperature difference between Part L1A and passive house might not seem much, but when you consider that the latter also ensures warmer surfaces (achieved through better U-values in opaque elements as well as windows), greatly reduced thermal bridges and some 20 times better levels of airtightness, the comfort levels provided by the two approaches are, frankly, worlds apart.

As the name suggests, it delivers an element of both airtightness and sound proofing.

Though the building wasn't designed as a passive house, careful attention to airtightness using Ampack's range of tapes and membranes, with particular attention paid to key junctions such as windows, chased walls and a counterbattened service void in ceilings, leading to an impressive pressure test result of 0.48 ACH.

This meant Cooper Insulation could test for obvious leakage points as they worked, and thereby ensure the eventual obligatory airtightness tests wouldn't throw up any nasty surprises, thus avoiding the need for difficult and costly remedial work.

According to Frank Flynn (pictured above), one of the reasons airtightness and insulation specialists Cooper Insulation were selected was due to the firm's investment in a Wincon unit — a stripped down version of a blower door often described as a «spirit level» for airtightness.

In 2006, the International Residential Code tightened up the language to require walls to be sealed, and as of 2009, the IECC requires airtightness testing.

On phase two however, the airtightness strategy was exemplary, and delivered results as low as 0.29 ACH — among the best results ever achieved in this country — ably assisted by experienced airtightness contractor Roman Szypura of Clioma House.

Building to the Passive House standard reduces our buildings» operational energy demand to an optimized extent through passive measures and components such as insulation, airtightness, heat recovery, solar heat gains, solar shading and incidental internal heat gains.

Relying on the purchase of large swaths of subsidized photovoltaic's or complex and expensive heating / cooling systems to reduce the energy signature of a building before using more economical strategies such as efficient appliances, good insulation, windows, and airtightness is widely accepted as a waste of resources (materials and money).