Sentences with phrase «quality building envelope»

He says careful design, integrated with a detailed building energy model creates a simple, high quality building envelope, which does most of the work.

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Happily, the expansion takes place within the building envelope at the lower level, wholly preserving the appearance of the original structure, which is widely admired for its sublime proportions, the quality of light that permeates the interior spaces, and for the experience navigating through.

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.

Indeed, as the building envelope and source equipment have become more efficient, HVAC design and installation quality remains mired in mediocrity, now becoming the Achilles Heel of home performance.

Also, while stating that commissioning is not just testing but entails ``... involvement way before that,» alluding to the «upstream» quality concepts first introduced by W. Edwards Deming in the 1950s, the article only goes so far in this instance and several others in elucidating and capitalizing on those powerful ideas, emphasizing them as a «must» only for the building envelope.

In mechanically cooled buildings in hot - humid climates, if interior negative pressure causes moisture - laden outdoor air to enter the building envelope, moisture can condense on cool surfaces, and, if restricted from drying to the inside, problems of material durability and indoor air quality can result.

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Typically, the risk of surface condensation and mould growth increases with internal humidity loads in buildings and / or reduced quality of the thermal envelope.

Stuart, the company's technical director, says Ecofix specialises in «cost - effectively building low energy, high quality external envelopes.»

Without a provincial air quality standard, there is no way of knowing whether the air within the property has been adequately remediated for such problems as leaky building envelopes, illegal grow - op activities or high levels of continued humidity that produce mould, says CREB.