Wraps and panel system need good quality long last high performing tapes that stick for the life of the building. Efficiency Matrix has a range of tapes to enable...
Air Tight materials, Talking Building Performance, Technology
Air and Vapour Permeability in your buildings wall sarking/wrap details.
Building wraps/membranes are useful for so many reasons. Building performance is only a part of the picture, when looking at control layers, with building envelope loads...
Building breath-ability, is a term often misunderstood and/or miss represented. What does it mean if a wall or building can breathe? We try to dissect the meaning, and...
ecoEVO design Episode 5 This massive prefab construction passive house is an amazing build. This incredible prefab home was constructed by CARBONlite. Attention to...
Building Science, Talking Building Performance
Air Leakage Testing NCC 2019 Information for home owners
NCC/BCA 2019 is here, and air leakage testing is in! It’s not mandatory yet but, what does it all mean? What does it mean for residential construction? In this video we...
Missing insulation is too common in new builds, and it needs to STOP! When it comes to insulation? It is super duper important to make sure that it is consistent...
Passive houses – are they only build for an engineers eyes? They can most certainly benefit from simplified design, but it is not necessary for them to be...
People get ideas of dying from lack of oxygen when it comes to passive house or even just talking air tightness itself. Here we talk about Asphyxiation/stuffiness when...
Building Science, Talking Building Performance
Solar Passive Design or Passive House? Green Building
What is the real difference between solar passive homes and passive house homes. These strategies are sometimes confused. The priority should always be passive house! We...
ecoEVO design Episode 4 Retrofit of a Garage for Comfortable Office. Turning a messy garage into something useful. During a pandemic, we all know how important it is to...
