ENVELOPE ENERGY PERFORMANCE OF A SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE WITH REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURE

Autor/autori: CĂLIN GABRIEL CORDUBAN,, AURORA IRINA DUMITRAŞCU, ADRIAN IACOB and IRINA BLIUC

Abstract: Sustainability criteria impose a rethinking of building envelopes, in order to ensure better indoor comfort and limit the consumption of resources over constructions lifetime cycle. In the case of reinforced concrete structures in colder climates, it is necessary to consider special measures concerning to compensate the thermal conductivity of the material and consider the effect of thermal bridges in the design stage. The case-study presented in this paper analyses a single-family modern house under construction in Suceava, with reinforced concrete post and beam structure, for which special measures were provided regarding the envelope, in order to achieve a complex architectural design and meet the highest standards of thermal comfort. In this article, the authors comment on the constructive challenges, present specific solutions, and a thermal modeling of the house in case, with specific analysis of thermal bridges.

Keywords: reinforced concrete structure, energy performance of building envelope, thermal comfort, heat and mass transfer, thermal bridges

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