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Building Envelope  »  Thermal bridging

Codes & Standards

The following standards and building codes provide specifications of building insulation requirements and specifications, and procedures to calculate thermal bridging in building envelope.

Country Standard Remarks
Germany Passivhaus Standard - PHI-1999/5 - Thermal Bridge Free Construction Literature on thermal bridges and resources for thermal bridge free construction
Germany Research Group Volume 35: Thermal bridges and supporting frames – The limits of thermal bridge free design Literature and research on thermal bridges and resources for thermal bridge free construction
Germany Research Group Volume 16:
1999 Thermal bridge free design
Literature and research on thermal bridges and resources for thermal bridge free con-struction
International ISO 10211:2007 - Thermal bridges in building construc-tion - Heat flows and surface temperatures -- Detailed calcu-lations ISO 10211:2007 sets out the specifications for a three-dimensional and a two-dimensional geometrical model of a thermal bridge for the numerical calculation of - heat flows, in order to assess the overall heat loss from a building or part of it; minimum surface temperatures, in order to assess the risk of surface condensa-tion

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