Introduction
- Building Regulations requirements for U-values
- BuildDesk U 3.2 | 10:00 |
U-values
- BR 443
- Creating a construction
- Use of catalogues | 10:15 |
Thermal transmittance calculations
- Numerical methods & simplified methods
- Thermal Bridging inhomogeneous layers
- BR443 Conventions for U-value calculations | 10:40 |
| BuildDesk U 3.2 software overview | 11:00 |
Calculating U-values for external walls
- Masonry
- Cavity air layers
- Mortar bridging & fixings
- Plasterboard on dabs | 11.30 |
| Lunch | 12:30 |
Calculating U-values for external walls cont.
- Timber frame & lightweight steel frame
- Rainscreen cladding | 13:00 |
Calculating U-values for roofs
- Cold pitched roofs
- Warm pitched roofs
- Flat roofs | 13:30 |
Calculating U-value for floors
- Calculation procedures –BS EN ISO 13370
- Slab on ground floor
- Suspended floors
| 14:15 |
| Basement walls and floors | 15:00 |
| Unheated spaces | 15:15 |
| Condensation risk analysis | 15:30 |
| Software results and reports | 16:00 |
| Q&A | 16:30 |
