Infrared in building offers a fast, non-invasive means of monitoring and diagnosing the condition of the building. It can be used as an important tool in diagnosing building envelope water leakage, structural damage, and excessive moisture or mould growth.
Reasons for Infrared in Building Diagnostics:
- Fast, non-invasive, safe.
- It minimises the requirement of large scale destructive investigations.
- Improves quality assurance
- Can pin-point moisture of structural problems
- Can show and monitor heat loss from buildings (energy efficiency)
- Discover planning and construction failures
- Can quickly detect hot-spots and missing insulation
- Can dramatically reduce costs of repair by pin-pointing exact areas of concern rather than guessing or mass demolition
In an infrared building report, with very clear and significant pseudo-colour visualisations, the evaluation of the thermal images enables the fast detection of insulation faults and expensive damages and loss of energy.
above images courtesy of Flir Systems Ltd