Experimental Studies on Hygrothermal Behaviour of ETICS
A preliminary test was carried out to assess where, in a facade, was surface condensation more severe: near the corners or in the middle of the wall. The test was performed on a building located in the University of Porto campus. Devices were set up on the North facade covered with ETICS of a technical building located close to the Building Physics Laboratory weather station, which collected the necessary climate data for this study.
In Section 1 several scenarios were selected that were based on instrumentally observed historical climatic data (HIST) and on results from a general circulation model (GISS). In this section we employ indices or models to analyze the impacts associated with these scenarios on the thermal climate (growing degree days), the moisture climate (precipitation effectiveness), the combined thermal-moisture effects (climatic index of agricultural potential which reflects biomass potential), and on drought frequency.