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    Thermal Bridge Modeling Half Day Introduction, April 6 @ 1:00 - 5:00 pm, Brooklyn, NY

  • 6 April 2017
  • Event Host : 475 High Performance Building Supply
  • Event Location : 475 Headquarters, 334 Douglass St., Brooklyn, NY, United States
Thermal Bridge Modeling Half Day Introduction, April 6 @ 1:00 - 5:00 pm, Brooklyn, NY
Event Description

Half-Day Introduction to thermal-bridge modeling for Passive House projects.
This seminar will introduce the core concepts and tools for thermal bridge modeling with a particular eye towards the models required for Passive House certification. The course will include an outline of key Thermal Bridge concepts, the basic calculations used in the Passive House model, and an introduction to the 2D Heat Transfer simulation tool THERM. Through a step-by-step presentation attendees will learn how to set up and use THERM to produce compliant models and output documents for certification and design.

  • Host Company/Organization Name
    • 475 High Performance Building Supply
  • Agenda
    • The course will include:

      – Intro to THERM structure, libraries, workflow
      – Rules and Standards for Thermal Bridge modeling
      – Step-By-Step walkthrough of several common Thermal Bridge scenarios in THERM
      – Using THERM results to create PSI-Val
  • Speakers / Presenters
    • Ed May is a partner in the consulting firm Building-Type and specializes in using energy modeling to drive the design of buildings. Ed has a background in home construction and holds a Bachelors degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst as we
  • Logistics / Parking
    • Attendees should bring a laptop with LBNL THERM pre-installed as well as spreadsheet application such as Microsoft Excel.
  • Cost
    • $300
  • Event type
    • Training

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