BUILDING ASSESSMENTS

Uncomfortable room temperatures, typically associated with attics, rooms over a garage, basements and additions, can be caused by several factors within a home including inadequate insulation, air leakage, poor duct system design, duct leakage, unwanted heating by the sun in warmer months, or a failure of the heating and cooling system.

Building audits and assessments—two terms often used interchangeably—are an effective way to evaluate the source or sources of performance problems within a home or building, and the solutions that best address them. A complete building assessment should include an analysis of:

The building’s energy systems

• The building’s water systems
• The building’s durability
• The building’s level of comfort
• The building’s pressurization
• The health of building’s the indoor environment

How Southface Can Help

Southface has conducted thousands of assessments on single-family, multifamily and commercial buildings. In addition to helping you identify the sources of and solutions to building occupants’ complaints, our building science experts can benchmark your building’s current environmental performance against similar buildings, suggest ways to improve your energy and water efficiency, and assist you in qualifying for ENERGY STAR^® or other green building program certifications.

A Southface building assessment provides you with:

• An on-site inspection of your building’s envelope, and its energy and water systems.
• A detailed analysis of where your energy and water dollars are currently being spent.
• Recommendations for cost-effective operational and capital improvements, both small and large-scale.
• An evaluation of potential operational savings that will result from capital improvements and their implementation costs, along with information on potential tax incentives.

Please contact Southface for more information about building assessments.