Imprint | Terms and Conditions | privacy Our company Building materials Fillers / pigments Current Downloads Dictionary Contact Current News Press Current news News 03/24/2015 KS construction seminars 2015 in North Rhine-Westphalia Again there were around 1700 visitors who were given practical information at the building seminars traditionally held at the beginning of the year in various cities in North Rhine-Westphalia by KS-West eV The series of specialist presentations was opened by Dr.-Ing. Martin Schäfers, Head of the Building Application and Building Physics Department at the Federal Association of the Sand-Lime Brick Industry Hanover. He explained the diverse requirements in the planning and execution of KS external wall constructions. He particularly addressed the thermal building envelope in connection with the EnEV 2014/2016. The focus here was on energy-saving heat protection, but also moisture protection and summer heat protection. Another topic was sound insulation, here also in connection with sound insulation against external noise when using an ETICS. Discussion arose on the fire behavior of walls insulated with an ETICS. Dr. Schäfers provided information on constructive measures to improve the fire behavior when using EPS insulation materials, which will be taken into account in the general building inspectorate approvals for this building material in the future. In the case of the EC 6, he recalled important basic static principles, e. B, when transferring the load, make sure that the load-bearing walls and pillars are as far as possible on top of each other. He also provided information on KS recommendations for the pre-dimensioning of KfW efficiency houses and presented changes to EN DIN 1996-2 / NA for the execution of masonry. Ability to fight Prof. Dr. Alfred Schmitz from TAC - Technische Akustik Korschenbroich - gave a lecture on "Structural Noise Protection". He explained the basics of sound insulation, whereby the "making sound" audible met with great interest. “How does the user perceive sound?” He played audio examples of how sound is heard with low-frequency and high-frequency components and the perception of a value of 53 dB compared to a value of 56 dB. Prof. Schmitz pointed out the importance of considering the flank transmission and the joint formation when determining the sound insulation of separating components. In this context he pointed out the KS sound insulation calculator as a very good program for calculating the sound insulation. Last but not least, a professional construction of the walls is of the greatest importance. He was not exactly squeamish with the authors of various BGH judgments on noise protection, which, in his opinion, did not exactly testify to professional competence. Since Prof. Schmitz is involved in all three committees that deal with the requirements and recommendations for noise protection - DIN, VDI and DEGA - he was able to give interesting insights into the work on standards. His recommendation for the audience in practice: "Make clean contracts that precisely describe the noise protection." The seminar ended with a lecture by Prof. Dr. jur. Axel Wirth. Prof. Wirth, who holds the chair for national and international construction law at the TU Darmstadt, showed the attending architects, engineers, property developers and building contractors the thin legal ice on which they sometimes move in their daily work. On the basis of numerous construction games of current building law judgments, he explained to the audience which legal traps they sometimes run into unconsciously and gave tips on how to successfully evade them. His remarks found a very interested audience. Download (10.4 MB) Source and further information: KS-West eV Barbarastr. 70 46282 Dorsten Tel .: 0 23 62/95 45-0 Fax: 0 23 62/95 45-25 info@ks-west.de www.ks-west.de back More pictures