How Building Envelopes Ensure Durability and Energy Efficiency

The whole point of repairing of a building envelope is to improve a building’s durability and energy efficiency. In today’s blog article, we are going to talk about how repair of a building envelope achieves improved durability and energy efficiency. 

What is the purpose of a building envelope? 

The building envelope is what protects the interior of a building from outside elements. It keeps water, dirt, snow and ice outside, and depending on the season, keeps either cold or hot air outside as well.

Similarly, the envelope regulates where interior air is vented outside, and how exterior air comes inside. Typically, as buildings age, the envelope works less and less well, and, also, building codes change over the years, so the repair of a building envelope probably makes it more efficient than it ever was in the first place. 

Durability 

The repair of a building envelope prevents water and drafts from coming inside the building where they are not supposed to. As technology and building materials improve, the building becomes much more impervious to the outside with better regulation of air flow. 

Efficiency 

When a building envelope is repaired properly, inside and outside air is exchanged efficiently, and the building is properly insulated. This, in turn, makes heating and cooling of the building much more efficient, and usually cuts down on the costs of heating and cooling. 

The best way to ensure that your building will last a long time and function as efficiently as possible is to have professional care and repair of its envelope.  

A building restoration company with long experience and expertise, like ours, Westerly Restoration, is well acquainted with how to restore structural integrity. We work on both residential and commercial projects. Please feel free to contact us at (778) 881-2877.

Westerly Restoration provides building envelope and restoration services in Vancouver, BC, and throughout the lower mainland.

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