Architectural Technologist – Thermal leakage
Image by Scays via Flickr It does not matter how careful your roofer is, when you butt insulation boards together, they will leak heat. If the roof is a conventional membrane on insulation on VB then...
View ArticleArchitectural Technologist – Frost or Freeze Thaw Ice attack
Image by Scays via Flickr I have looked into this problem with the main stream building products like brickwork , but whilst way on hols in Vienna, I happen to walk past a rather grand building with...
View ArticleArchitectural Technologist – Bad brickwork design
Image by Scays via Flickr Why did this detail ever get built, could not the designer see that it was doomed from the start, I saw it in Dorchester and thought, oh my God, just what have they done, and...
View ArticleArchitectural Technologist – The Energy Insight conference. The National...
Image by Getty Images via Daylife With the changes in Part L coming this year, I think this event, which is free, should be a major part of your CPD. The Energy Insight conference which provides...
View ArticleArchitectural Technologist – Read and think then research
Image by Scays via Flickr I have spent the best part of my adult career, specifying flat roofs of all sorts, from simple house extensions ie: a cold roof, to the more exotic hybrid roofs with...
View ArticleArchitectural Technologist – cavity wall insulation – Post installing
Image by Bryn Pinzgauer via Flickr Many of the houses on my estate are having post cavity wall insulation added, now you might think on that this is ok, warm house and energy saving, but walking past...
View ArticleArchitectural Technologist – Rainwater and gutters
Image by Scays via Flickr You know how it is, your standing in a bedroom looking out to the garden and suddenly the heavens open and it pours down, well on my house, I have the majority of the main...
View ArticleArchitectural Technologist – Vacuum Roofing Systems
Image via Wikipedia I see all sorts of new construction methods and I often wonder, who thought this one up, so recently, I came across this system, of vent points on a flat roof, sucking out air on a...
View ArticleArchitectural Technologist – Research & Innovation
Image via Wikipedia As I was eating my breakfast this morning, I read the IOB magazine, now normally I might not have mentioned this little snippet of news, but one article made me think just al...
View ArticleArchitectural Technologist – Celotex Youtube Channel
Image via CrunchBase Celotex, one of the UK’s leading Ridgid PU insulation manufacturers, has lanched a new Youtube video channel, currently it has only three videos, Wall lining, suspended timber...
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