Airtightness testing services
The BRE airtightness team are able to help you at every stage of your building project.
Airtightness services:
- Design review
- Construction phase inspections
- Training and guidance
- Pre-test inspections
- Air tightness test
- Very large/complex buildings
- Air leakage audit and Infrared Thermographic Surveys
- Design review
- Check details crucial to achieving airtight fabric
- Essential that this is carried out as early as possible
- Define air barrier
- Identify materials
- Identify trades responsible
- Check material specification and suitability
- Construction phase inspection
- Check detailing on site
- Discuss practical issues / buildability issues
- Quality Management
- Training and guidance
- Seminars
- We have given seminars on airtightness and how to comply with Part L of the Building Regulations. We can customise a seminar to suit your needs.
- Tool box talks
- Training and awareness for site based operatives
- Publications: BRE have a range of publications to offer available from the BRE Bookshop
- GBG 67 (pt 1,2&3)
- GPG 224
- BR 448
- Airtightness test
- To comply with Building Regulations Part L 2a (2006) mandatory to pressure test all buildings with a floor area > 500m2
- Worst acceptable air permeability level of 10m3/hour/m2 at 50 Pascal
- Over 20 years experience of airtightness testing and consultancy
- Hospitals
- Airport terminals
- Offices
- Warehouses
- Superstores
- Retail
- Schools and colleges
- Dwellings
- Very Large/complex buildings
When a building is very large (for example Heathrow Terminal 5), or very complex, it may be impractical or impossible to pressure test the building using conventional methods to demonstrate compliance. Building Regulations Part L2a makes provision for these handful of cases - BRE has experience of dealing with these large and complicated buildings and so is well placed to: - Work with you and your Building Control body to devise a method to demonstrate compliance
- Provide your team with a full and detailed review of drawings and details
- Carry out third party inspections of construction on site
- Part test pre-defined areas of the building
- Air leakage audit and thermographic surveys
If your building has draughts we can help identify the air leakage paths and provide you with remedial sealing advice: - Identification of air leakage paths and advice on remedial sealing
- Guidance on improved airtightness for existing buildings
- Thermal images and thermographic surveys
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