BUILDING ENCLOSURE LABS INC.
A client-focused laboratory and consulting company bringing building and sustainability science and education to the industry
SERVICES
Field and laboratory testing
- Compressive strength
- Freeze Thaw Decay
- Hygrothermal Properties
- Field water spray
- Full scale wall water spray and drainage
- Fenestration and whole building air tightness
Sustainability Science:
The application of science to determine, compare, and/or improve environmental attributes. Marketing green product and service attributes is also important but vulnerable to green washing without continued scientific assessments.
Sustainable Buildings
- Life cycle cost and environmental analysis (One Click LCA, EC3, etc.)
- Calculator development and use (RETScreen Expert, in-house tools)
- Thermal compliance calculations for NECB 2016 and TGS
- Energy Star for existing buildings
- Passive house feasibility and application modelling (PHI and PHIUS)
Sustainable Buildings:
Buildings that demonstrate a significant step toward sustainability relative to what would otherwise be built and operated. Strictly using the Bruntland definition of “sustainability” for buildings is difficult because it would fail to reflect such achievements toward sustainability.
Building Science
- Building Enclosure Design Support and Reviews
- Field Reviews
- Product Development and Optimization
- Zero Carbon applications
- Environmental Product Declarations
Building Science:
The application of our knowledge of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation, experimentation, and the testing of theories against the evidence to buildings. The alternative reliance upon direct experience is of great value but highly restrictive. (Hutcheon 1973)
Knowledge Sharing
- Speaking events
- Publications
- Webinars
- Academic team-taught courses
- On site and in lab training
Education:
The sharing of knowledge and expertise with the intent of enabling the student. It is not pitching products and/or services along with some building science factoids – that is marketing which has a different role and place in the industry.
Building Enclosure
- Engineering letters for non-CCMC products
- Forensic investigations
- Forensic design and support
- Expert witness testimony
Building Enclosure:
A system or assembly of components that provide environmental separation between the conditioned space and the exterior environment. Note: The enclosure is a special type of environmental separator that can alternatively exist within buildings as dividers between spaces with different environmental conditions. (Joe Lstiburek Building Science Insight 25)