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Measurement of Heat-Flux of New Type Façade Walls
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: Received: 3 August 2016 / Approved: 4 August 2016 / Online: 4 August 2016 (08:09:58 CEST)
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Samardzioska, T.; Apostolska, R. Measurement of Heat-Flux of New Type Façade Walls. Sustainability 2016, 8, 1031. Samardzioska, T.; Apostolska, R. Measurement of Heat-Flux of New Type Façade Walls. Sustainability 2016, 8, 1031.
Abstract
The building envelope has the most significant contribution in the reduction of the building energy consumption. Application of new, alternative and improved materials and systems has an important impact on the buildings performances. This paper is focused on the thermal transmittance, as an indicator of the thermal conductance of the construction element. It includes comparisons of the U-values, calculated by software, with those measured in situ on three representative façade walls. The walls have been constructed with the new wall system Fragmat NZ-1, a new product in Macedonian buildings. This research provides basic information on the thermal transmittance of the system. The results of the analysis show that the in situ measuring is a useful tool in validation of the precision of analytically calculated values, since it was difficult to obtain precise results from the analytical calculations only, especially when the layers are with non-uniform thickness.
Keywords
energy efficient building; heat flux; thermal transmittance; in situ measurement
Subject
Engineering, Civil Engineering
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