In the early 90’s a German physicist named Wolfgang Fiest was told by German building industry professionals that they had tried adding more insulation to buildings, but that it hadn’t had any impact on the building performance. This idea offended the physicist’s scientific sensibilities so much that he and a ...
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This is a deep retrofit project we currently have underway. This project is a single room in a 120 year old brick villa. The room was desperately in need of refurbishment. So rather than just tarting the space up the decision was made to pull the room back to it ...
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A thermal bridge in the context of construction is an area of the building envelope which has significantly higher heat transfer that the surrounding materials. In broad terms there are two types of thermal bridges to watch out for. There are material thermal bridges and there are geometrical thermal bridges. Material ...
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