Cataloging the thermal performance of common building envelope assemblies and interface details. Providing data-driven guidance that will make it easier for the industry to comprehensively consider ...

A construction thermal bridge is where there literally is a physical material, ... No more! I can’t help but see the thermal bridging these details create, the resultant heat loss, ...

Then, the overall heat loss due to linear (non-repeating) thermal bridging is determined by adding the resulting figures together to give a value for HTB. There are three possibilities for considering ...

Tucked away at the bottom of page 15 of Approved Document L2 is a reference to BRE Information Paper IP 17/01, ‘Assessing the effects of thermal bridging at junctions and around openings’. The BRE’s ...

One Canadian contractor found success by using structural thermal breaks to mitigate thermal bridging while supporting cantilevers withstanding heavy snowfall weights. Tracy Dacko Jun 30, 2021 ...

Owens Corning is introducing FOAMGLAS Perinsul SIB (Structural Insulating Block) as a thermal bridging solution for high-performance buildings. Material science helps explain its thermal performance.

Kevin Kalata, with Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, offers these tips to control thermal bridging: 1. Align the thermal breaks in the frames with the insulating glass unit. 2. For storefronts, use ...

Thermal bridging is a characteristic of some materials, such as steel studs, to transmit temperature differences through a wall assembly, short-circuiting the insulation that abuts it. The Consortium ...

It cannot have escaped anyone’s attention that there are big changes coming this year to the thermal requirements for buildings. One of the key changes is a reduction in the permitted maximum U-values ...

It is essential to understand the impact of thermal bridges if buildings are to be effectively insulated. This module, sponsored by Kingspan Insulation, explains how they occur, and how to reduce them ...