Section 6 2024 Scotland: Fabric Performance and towards Passive

Description

This seminar looks at the Scotland Building Standards Technical Handbook Section 6 on energy efficiency. It will help you to understand the following topics:

- Understand the goals set within Section 6 for fabric performance, the fabric first approach and how to achieve compliance in your specification

- Understand the advantage of good detailing to achieve good fabric performance

- Understand the thermal bridging factor, the Y-value and how it is calculated

- Understand how to calculate target U-values and the reference house

- Understand how to get towards Nearly Zero Energy Buildings (NZEB), Zero Carbon House and Passive standards