S.I.M.M.
Holzraum System creates a Single Integrated Manufacturing Model combining structural, building fabric, energy performance, manufacturing and mechanical systems perspectives and aligns them with the project stakeholders' goals.
Holzraum System works with architects, engineers, builders and developers and connects them with our manufacturing processes and efficiencies in order to provide building envelope analysis and consulting as needed, resulting in a complete integration of project design intent, passive house principals and cost-effective offsite manufacturing. Holzraum System keeps the envelope design and planning process connected - always maintaining alignment between client, engineering and manufacturing perspectives. As we create a precise and comprehensive single 3D model of your structure, we apply our building science training and Wufi static and dynamic software tools. This eliminates thermal bridging, achieves superb air-tightness, and delivers highly vapor-open moisture profiles in our exterior wall and roof assemblies: eliminating risks of mold conditions and assembly decay and assuring the safest, healthiest indoor air quality possible.
When the S.I.M.M. is complete, a detailed set of geometry drawings is prepared and reviewed by the project's structural engineer, architect and builder to ensure the whole team agrees with design intent and fabrication strategies. Once the drawings have been approved for fabrication, Holzraum System creates machine files and factory instructions from the S.I.M.M. to ensure that every aligned perspective is manifest in the delivered panels and loose parts.
Holzraum System® marries high-performance wooden building envelope design and translation for off-site manufacturing with interpretation and advocacy for designers, developers, owners, and manufacturers.
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PASSIVE HOUSE CONSULTING & ENERGY MODELING - Visualize Performance
Holzraum System staffs certified passive house consultants who can provide a customized level of energy modeling through full Phius +2018 building certification. Learn more about Passive House at www.phius.org
Holzraum System can work with owners, architects, engineers, developers and builders to provide building envelope analysis and consulting during early schematic brainstorming through complete design development and construction documents or at any points in between. Combining Bim, Wufi Passive, Plus and Component software we can help your team eliminate thermal bridging, achieve superb air-tightness and continuous energy recovered ventilation strategies, manage moisture profiles to eliminate risks of mold conditions and assembly decay, and provide feedback on proper solar orientation, shading and internal gains in order to balance and minimize heating and cooling equipment and operational requirements.
With the Company’s modeling tool set and design process we are able to visualize and analyze building assemblies and conditions in order to steer project designs towards these high-performance goals. Extensive material, climate, and occupant behavior data libraries combined with client and design team input and real-life experience are brought to every analysis in order to create a system of components working together towards healthy and sustainable living and working.
Our PHIUS certifed Passive House Consultants are trained by Fraunhofer Institute in WUFI Static and dynamic hygrothermal analysis. We rely on leaders from the building sciences and physics based in the U.S. and abroad to provide peer-reviewed analytic models, DOE-ready Net Zero ratings and PHIUS+ certifications.
Hygrothermal Analysis comparing moisture transport through two wall assemblies over a defined study period.
OPERATIONAL CARBON REDUCTION with PASSIVE HOUSE STRATEGIES
Holzraum System staffs certified passive house consultants who can provide a customized level of energy modeling through full Phius +2018 building certification. Learn more about Passive House at www.phius.org
Passive building comprises a set of design principles used to attain a quantifiable and rigorous level of energy efficiency, indoor air quality, comfort, and building resilience.
The Passive House Core Principles include:
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Employs continuous insulation throughout its entire envelope without any thermal bridging.
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The building envelope is extremely airtight, preventing infiltration of outside air and loss of conditioned air.
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Employs high-performance doors and windows (double or triple-paned windows depending on climate and building type)
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Solar gain is managed to harness the sun's energy for heating purposes in the heating season and to minimize overheating during the cooling season.
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Uses some form of balanced heat and moisture-recovery ventilation.
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Uses a minimal space conditioning system. Passive design strategy carefully models and balances a comprehensive set of factors including heat emissions from appliances and occupants to keep the building at comfortable and consistent indoor temperatures throughout the heating and cooling seasons.