OTHER TYPES OF BUILDINGS
Every building has a building envelope: office towers, schools, hospitals, residential buildings, industrial plants and government buildings.
Ensuring envelope performance in a new building is a matter of delivering sufficient strength, resilience, resistance and impermeability to maintain two different sets of conditions: one on the inside and one on the outside.
Improving the performance of an existing building generally concentrates on controlling air leakage and ensuring adequate and appropriate ventilation. With high-rises (anything over three floors), the pressure differences caused by stack, wind and mechanical effects, can create flow of air and moisture that cause many different problems. Among these are:
- High energy costs
- Drafts, uneven temperatures
- Transfer of odorus from floor to floor
- Moisture, mildew, condensation and mold
- Deterioration of building materials and cladding at air leakage points
Good news… there are a variety of materials and techniques available to overcome these adverse pressure effects.
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