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BUILDING SCIENCE
Building Science seeks to improve the method in which buildings are designed, constructed and maintained to ensure long building life, improve building performance throughout the expected service life through good building design and good construction oversight. Good building science improves building sustainability, reduces energy use, mitigates the effects of pollution, and improves the health of occupants.
SUSTAINABILITY
Building science and building envelope consulting are concerned with the technical performance of buildings, building materials, and building systems. The area is broad enough to include construction technology, material science, sustainability, architecture, heat and thermal mass physics, meteorology and hygrothermal engineering. The field is seen as the specialization of infrastructure engineering applied to building systems.
What are Building Envelope (Exterior Enclosure) Consulting Services and why should I be more diligent about its design and construction? The building envelope is the physical element between the interior and the exterior environments of a building or other structure. It serves as the outer shell to help maintain the indoor environment (together with the mechanical conditioning systems) to facilitate its climate control. Another emerging term is "Building Enclosure". Building envelope design is a specialized area of architectural and engineering practice that draws from all areas of building science and indoor climate control.
Architects have been designing the exterior walls, roof systems and structure foundations for hundreds of years, so what has changed? Everything… First, building codes have changed significantly over the years, manufactured products have evolved and sustainability and energy conservation has made a big impact on the types of products we select and in what order we assemble them. As buildings have gotten more energy efficient through the tightening of our structures, we have learned what not to do…
Lastly, more design professionals are involved in litigation over building enclosure issues (glazed curtain walls, roofs, skylights, water infiltration through below grade walls, flooring failures, mold, etc) than any other claim.
DTR is a specialty-consulting firm addressing both the design and performance of the Building Envelope. We take an integrated approach to designing exterior walls, glazing types, curtain walls, window and door openings, deck traffic coatings, green roofs and traditional roofing systems all the way down to the foundation and beneath the slab to protect the entire Building (Enclosure) Envelope
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