Thursday, May 31, 2018
Duration: 1 day
Time: 9:00am to 16:30pm
Cost: €50
Details
Introduction
- Over View of Insulation properties, including U, R and K Values.
- Insulation advantages and disadvantages along with all environmental impacts.
- Natural Insulations and Responsible specification
Air-Tightness & its execution on site
- Introduction to Air-tightness
- Air-tightness & Building Regulations
- Condensation dangers and their impacts
- Ventilation considerations
- Intelligent moisture management
- Conventional Details for Irish Construction
- Material specifications for specific Air-tightness applications
- Questions and answers
Wind tightness & its execution on site
- Introduction to Wind-tightness
- Condensation dangers and their impacts
- Ventilation considerations & cross Battening
- Types of Wind-tight barriers advantages & disadvantages
- Conventional Details for Irish Construction
- Questions and answers
Ventilation
- Introduction to ventilation
- System overview for ‘’demand controlled ventilation’’ and ‘’MVHR’’
Thermal Bridging
- Introduction to thermal bridging
- Practical solutions
- Hands on Practical Application and Demonstrations
- Insulation demonstrations for roofs, walls and floors
- Practical Air-tightness installation with Ampack Air-tightness membranes
- Practical Air-tightness to windows and membrane penetrations
- Practical Wind-tightness installation
- Summary/Questions and answers
- Course Certification
- Certification: Certificate of attendance & Completion of CPD available on completion
*Each participant will receive a sample pack with material samples brochures and a digital detail hand book