Thermal bridging/ Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...thermalbridges: It is not only sensible to addressthermalbridgingin construction, it is becoming law. Recent revisions to building codes have increased thethermalrequirements of building enclosures in many regions, including requiring athermalbreak. Contrary to common assumptions, the insulation value...

...thermalbridge', and preventing it is known as a 'thermalbreak'. Heat loss throughthermalbridgingWhen we mentioned at the beginning that these factors can work in conjunction, that is because the cold surface that results from the high conduction through wall studs and otherthermal桥梁可以吸收辐射…

...thermalbridgingThermalbridgingaround windows and doors results in loss of energy , cold spots, condensation points and potential wall damage. To demonstrate the importance of window and door placement relative to the wall's exterior, we ran somethermaltransmission tests with the following results. Images like...

...thermalbridges: When one section of a wall conducts heat much quicker than another, we refer to it as athermalbridge , and that can greatly reduce the overall R value of a wall. Virtually everythermalbridge in this wall assembly was identified and eliminated in the design phase.Thermalbreaks in exterior insu...

...thermalbridges in its insulated envelope, it points to problems in high humidity levels in the home – possibly coming from hidden problems in basements, crawlspaces, walls or ventilation systems – and some things are certain when a home has condensation running down the windows: Condensation won't disappear on its...

Home Insulation - how much is too much? A House can definitely be under-insulated (millions of homes throughout the United States and Canada have this very problem), but can a home have too much insulation? In short, yes it can. In reality, there is an optimal balance between the up-front cost of insulation and th...

...thermalenvelope is in terms of window quality . Having an extremely well-insulated wall is great, but if you blew the budget on insulation and had to put in low-quality windows, they become the weak link in the chain and you can effectively undo all your own efforts to reduce heat loss. So in the case of a super-ins...

...thermalbridges – wood does act as athermalbridge, but not nearly as much as metal, and with engineered I-joists, at only 5/8ths of an inch, the conductivity of the wood isn’t a great concern and becomes even less so the deeper it is. Fiberglassthermalspacers or "Cascadia Clips" The purpose of fiberglass insula...

...thermalbridging. What we decided on was plastic straps that passed through the cement board and that were anchored in the concrete. It did hold as planned, though there is more play in it than we ideally would have liked and if we were to do it again we would increase the amount of fasteners. Like many things, this ...

...thermalmass for balancing temperatures in homes. On the downside, as drywall is covered in paper and pretty porous, it often promotes mold growth in areas with higher humidity like bathrooms, kitchens and moldy basements , or under windows suffering from condensation problems - which is sub-optimal. When building in a...

The BRE Innovation Park (Building Research Establishment) that lies 15km north of Toronto will soon build a new series of houses in which emerging building products and technologies can be researched and enhanced. The Sustainable Technologies Evaluation Program (STEP) is run out of The Living City Campus at Kortrigh...