Increasing comfort in a building using thermography

Andrei Preda1), Lelia Letitia Popescu 2) & Razvan Stefan Popescu 2)

1)
Faculty of Naval Electro-Mechanics, Constanta Maritime University, , 104 Mircea cel Batran
Street, 900663, Constanta, Romania
2)
Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest, 66 Pache Protopopescu Blv.
Bucharest, Romania

Keywords: thermography, buildings, energy efficiency.

ABSTRACT:
Increasing the comfort of a residential building depends a lot on how well the structure of resistance is known and the
materials it is made of, but also the possible stages of degradation and the causes that led to them. One of the best
performing procedures to determine some of the causes of degradation is thermal imaging known as thermography.
The thermography results for the residential building are compared with the legal indices and then the conclusions are
drawn, followed by establishing the methods and the techniques of approach for its thermal recovery. Thermography has
a very long history, although its use has increased with the commercial and industrial applications of the past forty years.
Firefighter and military use thermography to see through smoke and to find persons. Engineers use thermography to
locate overheating sections, which are a sign of impending failure. Building construction technicians can see thermal
signatures that indicate heat leaks in faulty thermal insulation and can use the results to improve the efficiency of heating
and air-conditioning units. At the same time, the cost of an intervention is considerably reduced by the fact that the fault
is accurately known. Also we could improved Safety Management through early identification of potential hazards that
could endanger personnel and impact insurance costs. In the case presented in this paper, we prove the necessity and
usefulness of using the thermography in order to be able to visualize the energetic problems of the building in question.