ATTMA, the Air Tightness Testing & Measurement Association has introduced mandatory lodgement for all members, representing over 140 companies and over 350 test engineers across the UK.
36th AIVC - 5th TightVent - 3rd venticool Conference - Madrid, Spain - 23-24 September 2015
The 36th AIVC Conference " Effective ventilation in high performance buildings", was held in Madrid, Spain, 23-24 September 2015. Contains 119 papers and extended summaries.
Volume content
Analysis of results from ATTMA lodgement –what are the realistic air permeability characteristics of UK housing | 2015 | English | 1 pp
A new low pressure ‘quasi-steady’ pulse technique for determining the airtightness of buildings has been developed further and compared with the standard blower-door technique for field-testing a range of typical UK homes.
Airtightness Quality Management Approaches in France: end and birth of a scheme. Previous and new schemes overview and analysis | 2015 | English | 10 pp
Since 2006, the French Energy Performance regulation, named RT, has been allowing two ways to justify building airtightness: either with a measurement or with the application of a quality management approach.
The zero pressure compensation method has proven to be the best method to measure air flow rates accurately although it also has be shown that the accuracy depends on the type of air terminal device and how and where the pressure to be compensated
Detailed numerical modelling of moist air flow through a complex airtightness defect | 2015 | English | 10 pp
Mastering building airtightness is essential to meet the requirements of current and future building codes, not only for saving energy but also for ensuring moisture safety.
6 years of envelope airtightness measurements performed by French certified operators: analyses of about 65,000 tests | 2015 | English | 11 pp
Since 2000, the French EP-calculations have been considering thermal losses due to building envelope airtightness.