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Energy efficiency in buildings is a popular topic when it comes to reducing worldwide energy consumption, releasing of harmful gases and global climate change, since that they consume around 40% of the provided world energy. Heat losses in buildings cause a significant share of building’s poor energy performance. The paper observes the main problems with heat losses in buildings resulting to decreasing of their energy efficiency. The procedures for determining old building’s energy performance are described. Thermal imaging is presented with its contribution for discovering heat losses, thermal bridges, insulation problems and other efficiency disruptions. Experiments with thermal camera are carried out concerning building’s faults that have effect to the energy efficiency.
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The paper is partially supported and financed by National Science Fund of Ministry of Education and Science of Republic of Bulgaria, by Project for junior basic researchers and postdocs – 2019, Contract № КП-06-M37/2 from 06.12.2019 and by Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science under the National Research Programme “Young scientists and postdoctoral students” approved by DCM # 577/17.08.2018.
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Yosifova, V. (2021). Methods and Means for Analyzing Heat-Loss in Buildings for Increasing Their Energy Efficiency. In: Arai, K., Kapoor, S., Bhatia, R. (eds) Intelligent Systems and Applications. IntelliSys 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1252. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55190-2_4
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