The thermal and physical aspects of designing facade heat insulation at capital repairs and reconstruction of civic buildings

The brief analysis of civic buildings condition has been presented in this paper. It has been demonstrated that at present the housing stock doesn’t meet the up-to-date heat engineering, energy saving and energy performance requirements. To create the necessary indoor climate of living accommodations and to provide the comfortable living environment, most of civic buildings, built at different times, are in need of large-scale reconstruction. The leading role in solving these problems is assigned to capital repairs. For its satisfactory implementation an integrated approach to repairs and construction works with the use of up-to-date energy-efficient technologies and materials is needed. The efficient heat insulation of en-closing structures should be preceded with professional engineering survey of structures and with providing the scientifically-grounded recommendations, based on present-day scientific achievements in this sphere, for the subsequent making of design specification. It has been pointed out that the economic and processing efficiency of the selection and installation of heat insulation can be achieved only by means of scientific approach and the knowledge of physical and chemical processes and phenomena, taking place in enclosing structures under the influence of internal and external operational environment.