Thermal Bridging Management In Multi Unit Apartment Buildings

Balcony Thermal Bridging

Multi-unit residential buildings (MURBs) are vital components of the Quebec social housing stock which have largely fallen into disrepair. Panelized deep energy retrofits represent an exciting opportunity to revitalize them by improving their construction quality and energy efficiency alongside the health and wellbeing outcomes of their residents. The success of these retrofits depends on ...

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Guide to Mitigating Thermal Bridging at Roofs and Decks

This guide offers an example of how to apply the Building Envelope Thermal Bridging (BETB) Guide to modern multi-unit high-rise residential buildings that have decks and roofs on multiple floors.

Abstract The presence of thermal bridges in building envelopes influences the energy consumption, durability of the building envelopes, and the thermal comfort of occupants. Many existing and newly constructed multi-unit residential buildings (MURBs) in Canada have considerable thermal bridges such as balcony slab.

While thermal bridging mitigation is not explicitly mandated in most North American codes, increasingly stringent performance targets make it indispensable, especially when considering effects outside of energy demand. This paper presents a state-of-the-art review of thermal bridging in buildings .

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