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      Moisture control design has to respond to all relevant hygrothermal loads

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            Abstract

            Moisture related damage is still a formidable cost factor in the building sector. Besides installation deficiencies, moisture control design failures are the most frequent reasons for moisture problems. Therefore, adequate moisture control analysis has become the key for sustainable buildings. However, by focusing on vapour diffusion only other important moisture loads such as driving rain, construction moisture or air infiltration are mostly neglected. Therefore, international moisture control standards often refer to simulation models for more realistic analysis, leaving many practitioners wondering how to handle these tools. To overcome this dilemma, the updated German moisture control standard has introduced a three-pathway approach for design evaluation: 1 st deemed to satisfy list, 2 nd restricted Glaser calculation and 3 rd fully fledged hygrothermal simulation. The third pathway includes the option to account for small leaks or imperfections in building envelope components. Guidelines in other countries are also embracing similar moisture control approaches which gives hope for more durable and sustainable building design. To reach this aim, moisture control should also become an integral part of the design process instead of a secondary chore.

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            UCL Open: Environment Preprint
            UCL Press
            23 December 2021
            Affiliations
            [1 ] Dep. Hygrothermics, Fraunhofer IBP, Fraunhofer Str. 10, 83626 Valley, Germany, Upper Bavaria
            [2 ] College of Sciences and Engineering, University of Tasmania, Locked Bag 1323, Launceston TAS 7250
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            https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8305-0262
            Article
            10.14324/111.444/000113.v1
            7438a8c1-b7d1-4e7e-89eb-51dde7ce380a

            This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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            : 23 December 2021
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            Architecture
            Moisture control design standard; hygrothermal simulation; vapour diffusion calculation; deemed to satisfy; component leaks; ,Built environment,Sustainable development

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            Date: 27 March 2022

            Handling Editor: Dr Yasemin D. Aktas

            Editorial decision: Request revision. The Handling Editor requested revisions; the article has been returned to the authors to make this revision.

            2022-03-30 11:17 UTC
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            Date: 06 January 2022

            Handling Editor: Dr Yasemin D. Aktas

            This article is a preprint article and has not been peer-reviewed. It is under consideration following submission to UCL Open: Environment for open peer review.

            This article is part of the 1st International Conference on Moisture in Buildings (ICMB21) Special Series

            2022-01-06 15:21 UTC
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