Airtight buildings - a practical manual.

Although several investigations on how to design airtight buildings have been performedand the results furthermore have been published, many designers and contractors are stillunaware of this knowledge. Therefore, the aim of this work is to collect existing knowledgeand put it together to a practical guide. The target groups are architects, designers, contractorsand building services engineers.This paper is a summary of the report "Good Airtightness - guidelines to architects, buildingdesigners and contractors "published in Sweden during the autumn of 1997 [1]. Theguide contains six different chapters: 1) motives for air-, diffusion- and windtightness; 2)materials that may be used for the purpose; 3) 70 drawings and specifications on how tomake air, diffusion- and windtight constructions; 4) theory; 5) measurements; and, 6)quality assurance system for gaining air-, diffusion and windtight buildings.The content of chapter 1, 3 and 6 are emphasised in this conference paper.