Testing & Monitoring
When combined with an understanding of how buildings work, testing and monitoring can provide critical insight for building performance. Whether diagnosing a problem to confirm performance in a commissioning role or understanding how a material or assembly will perform over the long-term, Morrison Hershfield’s experience and engineering judgment make us more than a testing agency. We strive to help our clients by designing appropriate test programs and providing actionable insight and understanding to guide decisions.
We carry out both field and laboratory testing including: whole-building air leakage testing, smoke testing, thermographic scanning and interpretation, tracer gas testing, air quality testing, roof flood testing, window and curtain wall testing (air, water, thermal resistance and condensation), structural testing of secondary structural elements as well as frost point testing to test the seals of insulated glass units.
Longer term monitoring is used to evaluate time-based performance parameters. Our team has experience monitoring buildings over the long term for:
- Combined heat, air, and moisture movement in buildings under the influence of varying indoor and exterior environments
- Whole building energy measurement and verification
- Monitoring of new and innovative technologies for clients who want to push the envelope and know that the design assumptions translate to measurable gains in performance
We regularly assist manufacturers and industry trade organizations with product development and case studies to demonstrate market advantages. Through our research and development projects, we seek answers to questions that are often not well quantified.
Contact Our Team
Services
- Air Barrier Consulting
- Building Envelope Consulting
- Building Envelope Commissioning (BECx)
- Building Performance Analysis
- Capital Planning, Depreciation Reports and Reserve Studies
- Energy Modeling
- ETFE
- Facade Engineering
- Facility Assessment & Investigation
- Passive House
- Rehabilitation & Renovation
- Roofing & Waterproofing
- Thermal Bridging Solutions
- Mass Structure Services
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Plan and Prep: How to Pass Your Building’s Air Leakage Testby GZilavy@MorrisonHershfield.com (Morrison Hershfield) on June 12, 2017 at 10:44 pm
In our last post, Whole Building Air Leakage Testing, we discussed the importance of designing a continuous air barrier. While proper design and installation […]
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Designed to Pass: The Key to Your Building's Success in Passing the Air Leakage Testby GZilavy@MorrisonHershfield.com (Morrison Hershfield) on April 21, 2017 at 9:22 pm
Standards and codes across North America are becoming more stringent with regards to accepted air leakage rates in completed construction. As a result, air […]
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BECx: How Will Your Building Envelope Actually Perform?by GZilavy@MorrisonHershfield.com (Morrison Hershfield) on July 16, 2018 at 1:00 pm
We design building envelopes to be efficient, but do we know how they’ll actually perform? This is one of the many questions we get as the building […]