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Infrared Thermography
Surveys on Building Envelopes
Infrared Thermography Surveys on Building
Envelopes
Although it cannot quantify air leakage rates, infrared thermography
provides the most rapid means to identify unintentional air
leakage pathways in a building envelope. The benefits of infrared
thermography in this context are:
• Air leakage pathways within a completed construction
can be identified and rectified prior to air permeability
tests, reducing the risk of repeat testing being required.
• Depending upon the nature of the construction, even
a building that meets or exceeds air tightness requirements
may still be at risk of deterioration due to air leakage and
subsequent condensation. Identifying where air leakage is
occurring can be critical.
• Air leakage pathways can often indicate rainwater
ingress pathways adding to the potential benefits of an infrared
survey.
Infrared thermography is becoming one of the fastest growing
predictive maintenance technologies available today. The development
of hand held focal plane array based systems enables predictive
maintenance engineers to bring the thermographic camera to
virtually any equipment site with ease. Advanced image processing
and reporting programs facilitate fast and easy analysis and
documentation of survey results.
Typically problems manifest themselves in two ways. With electrical
and mechanical components, the problems appear as hot spots,
which gradually grow in temperature. With insulation/heat
loss related problems and NDT studies, the problems manifest
themselves as thermal patterns, which grow in size. In some
situations, both the temperature and the size of the thermal
pattern will increase.
APT Thermography - Further Information
If you have any questions or queries please don’t hesitate
to contact us:
By Mobile - 07967 233836 (available 7am to
10pm)
By E-mail - info@aptthermography.net
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