Study of buildings is important
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Explanation:
If you’ve made it to this blog, chances are you’ve heard a thing or two about green building, or about its components: energy efficiency, air quality, material sustainability or building durability. But have you heard about an umbrella term that encompasses many of these topics, the interdisciplinary study of building science?
As Green Building Manager for green-built alliance member company Deltec Homes, and with an academic background in physics, I consider myself a building scientist above all, and I’ve recently returned from Building Science Summer Camp, an annual conference put on by the Building Science Corporation, bursting with new insights and enthusiasm on the subject.
What is building science?
Building science is simply applying what we know about physics and other sciences to buildings, with a focus on moisture and heat. As such, building science touches on concepts from material science: the engineering discipline that studies the physical and chemical properties of materials (e.g. brick, plywood, insulation, drywall, anything buildings are made out of that might interact with moisture and heat in ways that may need to be considered), thermodynamics: dealing with methods of heat transfer, phase changes, pressure dynamics, and mechanical engineering: which gets into all the nitty-gritty of airflows and motors and equipment that generates heat, cools air, or produces or removes moisture, and even touches some on health and biology with respect to indoor air quality and mold growth (a natural consequence of moisture.) And it’s pretty helpful to mix that in with a dose of construction management: the common and necessary techniques of construction, how jobs are sequenced, and the best places in the construction process to do what with what material.
Why is building science important?
Buildings use a lot of energy, and energy use has concerning environmental and economic impacts. The biggest component of energy use in most residential buildings is heating and cooling. Meanwhile, moisture in buildings can have huge impacts on the durability of building materials and on human health, and is a huge source of litigation in the building world. Moisture and heat are often tied together in today’s buildings, due to physics, and due to mechanical systems which can be a way to remove moisture, or can sometime fail to adequately do so.
Additionally, while some problems with buildings would become obvious very quickly: (e.g. if the structure isn’t engineered right, gravity will pull it down; or if the electrical isn’t done right, you might have a fire) the discipline of building science often focuses on more insidious problems that might take time to develop. Things like high energy use due to hidden holes and drafts in a building, or moisture that builds up over time due to defects in flashing.
Most of this is not about discovering new physics, we are typically just applying concepts we already know in ways unique to the particular materials and climatic conditions of a given building. But it turns out there are many, many variables to the same old science, especially as new building materials are now proliferating, and have the potential to be used together in a nearly infinite number of ways in a wide variety of environmental conditions. Without an understanding of building science, one might use a building technique meant for one climate that causes problems in a different climate, or pair together materials with vastly different moisture properties and end up with unintended moisture buildup hidden inside a wall or ceiling.
Building science is often applied to new construction, but it is critically important for renovating existing buildings as well. Not only must the properties of currently available building materials be understood, but also how they might interact with historic materials. How were buildings built 10, 50, 100, 500+ years ago? What factors contributed to their longevity that should not be altered now? One of the most interesting talks I saw at this year’s Summer Camp was from a PhD Physicist who works for the Historical Society of Britain, advising on what to do with buildings that can be thousands of years old to keep them in good shape. She applies the concepts of physics every day to this real-life challenge.
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Buildings use a lot of strength, and strength use has environmental and financial impacts.
Explanation:
- Building technological know-how is the gathering of medical understanding that focuses on the evaluation of the bodily phenomena affecting homes.
- Building physics, architectural technological know-how, and carried out physics are phrases used for the understanding area that overlaps with constructing technological know-how.
- The largest element of strength used in maximum residential homes is heating and cooling.
- This is due to the fact existence without generation is unnecessary in today’s dynamic world.
- Technology, which brings collectively equipment to sell development, use, and statistics exchange, has as its major goal of creating duties simpler and fixing many issues of mankind.
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