Exploring energy-efficient design with masonry

by Erik Missio | October 11, 2016 12:01 am

A new e-book, free for download, collects technical features from The Construction Specifier that relate to masonry assemblies. One of the articles mentions the Yale Health Services Building (New Haven, Connecticut), designed by Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, with the International Masonry Institute’s (IMI’s) David Biggs and Front Inc. serving as exterior masonry consultants. Photo courtesy Richard Filloramo — A new e-book, free for download, collects technical features from *The Construction Specifier* that relate to masonry assemblies. One of the articles mentions the Yale Health Services Building (New Haven, Connecticut), designed by Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, with the International Masonry Institute’s (IMI’s) David Biggs and Front Inc. serving as exterior masonry consultants.
*Photo courtesy Richard Filloramo*

Masonry materials and wall assemblies, with their inherent thermal mass characteristics, provide designers with many options to achieve efficient designs. Architects and engineers have to make new decisions to reduce their projects’ energy consumption, requiring close collaboration and coordination with building and energy codes, along with construction documents.

The most significant code changes include increased R-values for non-mass opaque walls (e.g. cold-formed metal framing), requirement options for continuous insulation (ci), a need for continuous air barriers, R-value reductions for thermal bridging, and three paths for building energy design.

An article from The Construction Specifier tackles what the changes mean for those building with masonry. It is included in a new free Beyond Bricks & Mortar: A Guide to Masonry e-book at http://www.constructionspecifier.com/hb-beyond-bricks-and-mortar-ebook[1].

Endnotes:

http://www.constructionspecifier.com/hb-beyond-bricks-and-mortar-ebook: http://www.constructionspecifier.com/hb-beyond-bricks-and-mortar-ebook

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