Air leakage of Insulated Concrete Form houses
Thesis (S.M. in Building Technology)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2012.
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| author | Durschlag, Hannah (Hanna Rebekah) |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. |
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| description | Thesis (S.M. in Building Technology)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2012. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/726272019-04-12T07:41:29Z Air leakage of Insulated Concrete Form houses Air leakage of ICF houses Durschlag, Hannah (Hanna Rebekah) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Architecture. Thesis (S.M. in Building Technology)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2012. This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-63). Air leakage has been shown to increase building energy use due to additional heating and cooling loads. Although many construction types have been examined for leakage, an exploration of a large number of Insulated Concrete Form (ICF) houses has not yet been completed. This thesis first collects 43 blower door tests of recently built ICF houses in North America. These are then examined and compared with a large collection of blower door tests of wood-stud construction. There is a 1.2% difference between ICF and wood-stud air leakage, with a very similar range. This range is mainly attributed to leakage from the attic space and cracks around windows based on a thorough investigation of two specific ICF houses in Nashville, TN. Using an EnergyPlus building model, the difference in air leakage between a typical ICF and wood-stud house in Chicago and Phoenix is not found to cause a significant gap in energy use. However, the range in air leakage does affect the amount of energy a single-family house consumes. by Hannah Durschlag. S.M.in Building Technology 2012-09-11T17:27:29Z 2012-09-11T17:27:29Z 2012 2012 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72627 806323627 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 78 p. application/pdf n-us-tn Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Architecture. Durschlag, Hannah (Hanna Rebekah) Air leakage of Insulated Concrete Form houses |
| title | Air leakage of Insulated Concrete Form houses |
| title_full | Air leakage of Insulated Concrete Form houses |
| title_fullStr | Air leakage of Insulated Concrete Form houses |
| title_full_unstemmed | Air leakage of Insulated Concrete Form houses |
| title_short | Air leakage of Insulated Concrete Form houses |
| title_sort | air leakage of insulated concrete form houses |
| topic | Architecture. |
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