With a super
insulated building envelope and triple - pane windows, the new home outperforms the old one by a huge margin in terms of comfort and energy consumption.
Not exact matches
You want a complete
building envelope that's
insulated and air - sealed.
The M - Series utilizes a steel rigid frame with an exceptionally efficient
building envelope made from structurally
insulated panels, comprised of pure insulation sandwiched between magnesium concrete boards that are impervious to water, and flame resistant.
Fox Blocks
Insulating Concrete Form Wall Systems provide an extremely energy efficient
building envelope offering superior strength, sound, air quality, and well
insulated walls.
The cottages are
built using structural
insulated panels for floor, walls and roof, creating an extremely energy efficient
building envelope.
We may otherwise be giving back some of the benefits via: leaky chimney dampers; low R value masonry and metal chimneys which penetrate the
building envelope (both heating and cooling penalties depending on the season); convective air currents arising from temperature differentials inside large chimneys; metal pipe air intakes which can be quite difficult to
insulate, channeling cold into the
envelope 24/7 during heating season; backdrafting through leaky woodstove doors; and so forth.
The team
insulated the entire
building envelope with EPS, and airtightness is provided by the OSB along with Siga tapes and membranes.