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Equivalent Leakage Area of a Building

<p>Of a building. Quantitative expression of the airtightness of a building enclosure. EqLA is the method set by the Canadian General Standards Board in which a blower door depressurizes the building enclosure to 10 Pascals and the leakiness of the enclosure is expressed as a summary hole in square inches. ELA is set by the ASTM equivalent procedure at a pressure differential of 4 Pascals.</p>

Variants

  • EqLA, ELA
by zope last modified 2009/05/28

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