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NECESSARY TOOLS FOR SUSTAINABLE BUILDING DEVELOPMENT

SENTRALE REDSKAPER FOR UTVIKLING AV BÆREKRAFTIGE BYGNINGER

Arild Gustavsen (NTNU) and Terje Jacobsen (SINTEF)

Good laboratory facilities are important for Materials, building assemblies, and solar radiation can also be investigated. The
research, development, and improvement building services indoor environment generated using different
of sustainable buildings and building ventilation strategies and components can be
technologies. ZEB has built new laboratory Building materials, building assemblies and investigated in a test room. The performance
facilities and improved existing laboratories building services are important parts of a of advanced heat exchangers for air handling
at NTNU and SINTEF during its seven years building. Each component needs to be of good units can be tested in dedicated rigs. In
of existence. Building materials, building quality for the building to function well as a addition, a facility has been developed to
assemblies, building services, interaction whole. NTNU and SINTEF have extensive investigate control strategies for sub-stations
between building services and building facilities for investigating the strengths in district heating systems.
materials, building integrated energy supply and weaknesses of building materials and Contact: Terje Jacobsen and Hans Martin
systems, and building-grid interaction can components. Some examples are FTIR Mathisen.
now be investigated. These facilities have spectrometers, hot plate apparatus for
been made available to researchers and the measuring thermal conductivity, hot box for ZEB Test Cell Laboratory
building industry and are helping to speed up the measurement of thermal transmittance
the development of sustainable solutions for (U-value), and climate chambers for The laboratory equipment mentioned
the building industry. The following examples measuring the hygrothermal properties of and shown above utilizes a controlled
present some of the experimental facilities that building materials and assemblies. Climate environment on both sides of the sample, i.e.
are available, including some laboratories built simulators are available for measuring air both an indoor and outdoor climate may be
before the ZEB Centre was established. and water tightness as well as building simulated. This is important for evaluating
material durability. Experiments can be building components under standardized
performed under constant and dynamic conditions, e.g. rating and comparison of
boundary conditions, and the inluence of building components such as windows

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