EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE THERMAL ENVIRONMENT PERFORMANCE AND AIR TIGHT PERFORMANCE OF TIMBER HOUSE WITH MUD WALL AND CONTINUOUS BEAM

Abstract

Recently, our action against global environmental concerns including global warming is high priority issue. Then an energy saving, effective use of the resource, the reduction in the construction waste and the reuse of the material are important problems in the architectural production field. The authors are researching the timber house rebuilding system that uses the used structural members again. The wall of an earthquake-resisting element adopts the wood siding wall and the mud wall that is composed by Kikomai, Nuki and mud. The case study house was constructed to clarify the effectiveness of this system. In this paper, the indoor thermal environment performance and the air tight performance obtained from the environmental measurement result are described.