Building Performance Testing

Energy Analyses

TBS provides full energy audit services that can predict energy consumption for future buildings, evaluate current energy consumption efficiency, and identify likely savings potential. Our audits can identify the energy a building should be using compared to the energy you are using to identify unnecessary or unexpected energy losses or consumption.

Water Intrusion/Leakage

TBS provides water intrusion testing on building wall, foundation, floor, and roof assemblies and components including window and door openings, skylights, louvers, and utility penetration through the walls utilizing ASTM test methods, adapted for field conditions where necessary.

Soil Vapor/Brownfield

Many modern day renovations occur in facilities that were once industrial manufacturing structures. Many of these facilities are sitting above potentially toxic and carcinogenic plumes of contaminated groundwater or VOC-laced soil vapors trapped in the vadose zone under buildings. We are experts at performing diagnostics evaluations to aid in the design of active mitigation systems.

Air Flow Modeling

Our in-house airflow modeling services may be required for a diverse number of applications such as determining pressure differentials, verifying air leakage, diagnosing unbalanced ventilation, and aiding in the design of containment pathways.

Large Building Air Tightness

Testing Modern buildings need to meet more stringent air leakage standards. Testing larger buildings for air tightness requires multiple blower doors working in unison, in conjunction with guarded pressure zones, to measure the leakage rate of the building enclosure.

Air Leakage/Barrier Review - ABAA Auditing

An air barrier is critical to limiting air transport pathways (infiltration) into the building walls, resulting in high infiltration loads of HVAC equipment. Minimizing the air movement through the building envelope components reduces the cost of HVAC equipment and operation.