This guide, released by the Building Services Research and Information Association (BSRIA), provides information on how to design and build buildings to achieve their airtightness targets. It is intended for architects, building service designers, energy assessors, builders, services installers, fire sealers, … Continue reading →
This guide released by the Passivhaus Trust, highlights the key aspects of designing to the Passivhaus standard and lists the do’s and don’t’s on how to successfully build a Passivhaus. Chapter 4 of the guide is dedicated to airtightness; It … Continue reading →
This report provides guidance on understanding the air leakage requirements in the 2012 edition of the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) and gives suggestions on how to meet the air sealing measures. It also provides information from Building America’s Air … Continue reading →
This guide recently released by Encraft, provides guidance for the specific airtightness testing requirements for Passive House & EnerPHit certification, taking into account the existing differences in the calculations and methodologies when compared to the UK Building Regulations. It includes … Continue reading →
One of the objectives of QUALICHeCK is to speed up the implementation and uptake of approaches to improve the reliability of EPC input data and the quality of the works in practice. To this end, a number of fact sheets … Continue reading →
The eighth issue of the TightVent newsletter is now available for download! Contents include: Foreword September 23-24, 2015: 36th AIVC conference, Madrid, Spain QUALICHeCK FACT SHEET: “Building regulations can foster quality management — the French example on building airtightness” March … Continue reading →
This newsletter from the French “Observatoire des Bâtiments Basse Consommation” (Observatoire BBC) gives information on the airtightness of new buildings, based on a comparison between the buildings that have got the “BBC Effinergie” label and buildings that did not get … Continue reading →
This report deals with Indoor Air Quality (IAQ), thermal comfort and daylight requirements in Belgium (Brussels Region), Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden and the UK (England and Wales) and focuses on the respective building codes for new and existing … Continue reading →
A new publication was released in the framework of the International Energy Agency’s Solar Heating and Cooling (SHC) Programme and the Energy in Buildings and Communities (EBC) Programme through the joint SHC Task 40/EBC Annex 52: “Towards net zero energy … Continue reading →
The handbook: “Building Thermography-including blower door and heat flux meter” approaches the technique both from a theoretical and practical point of view. It includes one chapter dedicated to the technical characteristics of thermal cameras and software, two chapters dedicated to blower … Continue reading →
