"Thermal bridges"

Thermal bridges / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

Efficient home design

Insulation in green home building, a balanced approach to putting it where it does the most good

...thermal envelope is in terms of window quality. Having an extremely well-insulated wall is great, but if you blew the budget on insulation and had to put in low-quality windows, they become the weak link in the chain and you can effectively undo all your own efforts to reduce heat loss. So in the case of a super-insula...

Windows and doors

Installing doors & windows for the best performance in high efficiency homes, LEED & Passive House

...thermal bridging Thermal bridging around windows and doors results in loss of energy, cold spots, condensation points and potential wall damage. To demonstrate the importance of window and door placement relative to the wall's exterior, we ran some thermal transmission tests with the following results. Images like t...

Efficient home design

What is a thermal bridge and why is it so important to break it?

...Thermal bridges that will cause significant heat loss are not limited to just studs in a wall. They include discontinuities in the insulation, corner junctions, badly installed insulation (convective thermal bridges), concrete slab junctions at walls and balconies, service openings (structural thermal bridges), and 'pe...