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Pro Clima Technical
on Airtightness and Moisture Management
Healthy Building Experts

The Pro Clima NZ technical team offers expert advice on how to manage moisture and condensation to create healthy, durable and energy-efficient buildings to live, learn, work and play in — now, and for generations to come.

20 July 2017

Improving Thermal Performance with Triple Connected Windows

How to ensure standard thermally-broken windows are positioned to succeed.

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22 June 2017

Enclosing Insulation in Skillion Roofs

Full insulation performance can be achieved even when the 25mm air gap is eliminated.

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18 May 2017

Airtightness: Friend or Foe?

It's time to realise that lack of ventilation, not airtightness, is the new enemy.

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24 March 2017

What's the Use of Blower Door Testing?

How can we judge a building's performance when all testing methods have limitations?

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24 February 2017

Windows and the Fingerprint of Continuous Layers

The performance of windows can be greatly improved by ensuring insulation, weathertightness and airtightness layers connect.

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23 November 2016

The Building Envelope 1.3: Controlling the Movement of Moisture

Controlling moisture within the building structure can help protect the homeowners' investment while offering improvements to energy-efficiency, comfort and health.

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19 October 2016

The Building Envelope 1.2: Thermally Insulated Buildings

As vapour diffusion takes place both in winter and summer, a solution that can predictably prevent moisture accumulation within the structure through all seasons is required.

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26 September 2016

The Building Envelope: Protection for the Living Environment 


Understanding insulation, warmth and moisture transport is key to building durable and healthy homes.

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21 July 2016

Airtightness Under Pressure on The Block NZ

The challenge of creating airtightness for the high-speed, high-pressure renovations on TV3's The Block was given to us by Context Architects Ltd.

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19 April 2016

Building with an Internal Service Cavity

An internal service cavity solves the common problem of sub-trades pulling out insulation to make space for their work and offers several benefits which outweigh the initial cost of material and labour.

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