Energy-saving building envelopes
Thermally decoupled pressure connections
for reinforced-concrete columns
In the course of the increasingly stricter standards imposed by the German Energy Savings Ordinance (EnEV), reducing the thermal losses of building envelopes is of great significance. In this context, thermal bridges influence increasingly the total energy loss of buildings. Products for thermal isolation of reinforced-concrete connections in building components primarily subjected to bending and shear loading (balconies) are available on the market from various manufacturers, whereas until now there have been no such solutions available for primarily compression-loaded columns.
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