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Improving thermal efficiency in lightweight construction: mass timber as thermal mass
This research task was established to obtain new data to inform opportunities to further improve the thermal efficiency of light-weight, timber framed, small to medium scaled buildings. The principle task of this project was to complete an empirical study assessing the measured thermal performance of mass-timber. This empirical study, within real buildings, could then be used to corroborate previous published building heating and cooling energy simulations, which had shown significant thermal performance benefit when mass-timber was substituted with standard framed systems, and concrete and clay brick thermal mass systems.
Funding
Forest & Wood Products Australia Limited
CSIRO-Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation
History
Commissioning body
Forest and Wood Products AustraliaNumber
PNA289-1213aPagination
38Department/School
School of Architecture and DesignPublisher
Forest and Wood Products AustraliaPlace of publication
Melbourne, AustraliaRights statement
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