National Program Plan for Building Thermal Envelope Systems and Insulating Materials: Technology and Implementation for Energy Conservation

摘要

The objective of this National Program is to provide the technical data, test procedures, guidelines, and consensus standards needed by manufacturers, designers, and builders to produce buildings of high energy efficiency while concurrently meeting safety, durability, habitability, and economic objectives. The goal is to conserve the nations's energy. The Plan describes ongoing technical work on insulation and improvement of building envelope systems, needed new research, development, and demonstration in these areas, and a program for carrying out the required technology. It discusses several thermal-insulating materials currently in use in the marketplace, properties that need to be evaluated for all insulations, and gaps in existing knowledge and test procedures for selected characteristics of each of these useful materials. It describes more than a dozen technical areas in which new measurement technology, new technical data, and new standards are needed for the major elements of building envelopes; namely, floors, walls, and ceiling/roof constructions. The procedures to introduce new knowledge and performance requirements into the commerce of building are also described. The Plan contains about 40 major tasks, described in three chapters on Thermal Insulating Materials, Thermal Envelope Systems, and Implementation. The principal outputs of the Plan are summarized. (ERA citation 04:023475)