Sentences with phrase «before airtightness»

And I'd put ventilation before airtightness.»

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After the air barrier is complete, but before the drywall is up, we will conduct another blower door test to make sure that the building's airtightness is below the Passive House retrofit standard of 1 ACH50.

He explains that the build team deployed a range of techniques to bolster the airtightness performance of the building before the installation of the airtightness layer itself.

Standing on the top of the vault - not budging at all: Happy participants cheering: Everything is harder when you do it at the wrong time - the airtightness paper should have been in before the bale vault was built.

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).