{"id":856,"date":"2019-04-26T13:53:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T13:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/?p=856"},"modified":"2019-07-01T09:56:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T09:56:00","slug":"ductwork-air-leakage-discussed-in-tightvent-webinar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/2019\/ductwork-air-leakage-discussed-in-tightvent-webinar\/","title":{"rendered":"Ductwork Air Leakage Discussed in Tightvent Webinar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TightVent\nEurope hosted a webinar on 25<sup>th<\/sup> April to talk about onsite ductwork\nairtightness measurements in standardization<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ductwork leakage\n(ie. Airtightness) was introduced into the standard EN12599 in 2012. This\nstandard is currently under revision and airtightness is the main subject being\nworked on. This is to get \u201cclarification between the airtightness classes of system\nand duct components\u201d, \u201ca measurement method should be applicable also for\ninspections and also\u201d to \u201ctake into account requirements of national guidelines\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the seminar, Peter Rogers was the UK representative from BESA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.besa.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Building Engineering Services Association<\/a>). He was present to discuss air leakage testing in ductwork. He went through what the expectations from the ductwork contractor, production contractor and the on-site installation team and that co-operation was required from all of them for a successful ductwork airtightness test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was stated\nthat air leakage testing of low and medium pressure ductwork is not mandatory\nunder BESA DW\/144 specification for Sheet Metal Ductwork, where as high\npressure ductwork is mandatory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Building\nregulations ADL2A (new buildings) and ADL2B (existing buildings) state that \u201cductwork\nleakage testing should be carried out in accordance with the procedures set out\nin BESA DW\/144\u201d which also refers to DW\/143. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">For more information visit <a href=\"https:\/\/tightvent.eu\/archives\/3357\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/tightvent.eu\/archives\/3357<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TightVent Europe hosted a webinar on 25th April to talk about onsite ductwork airtightness measurements in standardization Ductwork leakage (ie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[97,37],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-air-leakage","tag-airtightnesstesting"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 23:34:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}