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  1. Thermal Imaging
  2. Service & Knowledge
  3. Thermography Glossary
  4. Building Thermography

Ther­mo­graphic Building Inspec­tions

Thermal imaging supports the fight against global warming

  • Thermography greatly helps detecting energy losses of buildings

  • Highest thermal resolutions of the infrared cameras ensure valid analyses and rapid pay-off

  • High efficiency by big number of pixels and low ex-post work

  • Meaningful analyses based on standard or special software

Building thermography - Detection of thermal bridges
Building thermography - Leakage detection
Building thermography - Building before the renovation
Building thermography - Building after the renovation
thermal imaging of a framework facade
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Building Ther­mo­graphy is One of the Most Demanding Applic­a­tions for Infrared Camera Systems

Increasing the energy efficiency of buildings has highest priority and infrared thermography greatly contributes to reaching this goal. Inspections with infrared cameras quickly and easily indicate insulation problems of buildings. To do so the infrared camera systems need to come with a respective good resolution. Firstly this is about thermal resolution. Infrared camera systems for building inspections should come with an especially good thermal resolution of < 40 mK (0.04 °C).

This means that they will even be able to detect faults securely when the temperature difference between outdoors and indoors is minimal. Only in such way infrared camera systems can be used throughout the year to pay off faster. Also when locating leakages such a good thermal resolution provides advantages as faults in deeper areas can still be detected easier. The VarioCAM® infrared camera series of InfraTec is especailly suited for those demands also because of their high geometrical resolution.

InfraTec Infrared Camera Systems Make Building Inspec­tions Extremely Effi­cient with Their 3.1 Mega­Pixels

Building thermography - Avoid measurement error

An infrared camera of the VarioCAM® High Definition series with 3.1 megapixels provides 16 times the number of pixels of a standard infrared camera with (320 x 240) IR-pixels. Thereby thermal images can be taken from a larger distance providing a view of the complete building and still show small details in a suitable resolution. Like this building inspections become more efficient as there is no longer a need to take many small images, to stitch them together one by one for analysis.

Case Studies of Vari­oCAM® HD head 900

Thermography for Building Inspections - Picture credits: © Pexels / Felix Lauster

Ther­mo­graphy for Building Inspec­tions

ARCHIMEDES Facility-Management GmbH uses its infrared camera predominantly for revisions and securing of quality standards during the construction phase of newly erected buildings and the refurbishment of older buildings. Thereby the detection of construction faults like thermal bridges, poor insulations or air leakages plays a major role.

Usage of Vari­oCAM®-series for building inspec­tions
infrared camera VarioCAM HD head of InfraTec

Thermal 3D Mapping

The merging of temperature information with data from 3D scans provides a major benefit, especially in building thermography. Corresponding models open up the possibility of investigating heat distribution in buildings even more precisely. This enables users, for example, to determine where thermal irregularities and leaks occur and how large their dimensions are. Laser specialist RIEGL uses an infrared camera VarioCAM® head 900 from InfraTec for such a combined measurement and testing system.

Further inform­a­tion thermal 3D mapping

Intel­li­gent Analysis Soft­ware Produces Mean­ingful Surveys by Pressing a Button

After having taken high resolution thermal images those images need to be analysed. The thermographic software family IRBIS® 3 already supports many of the necessary analyses. The special software for building inspections FORNAX 2 makes the production of those surveys even easier. For instance the appearance of mould cannot only be detected but it can also be determined easily and legally proof whether this is caused by construction faults or inadequate behaviour of the users. The good teamplay between excellent infrared camera systems and software result in big efficiency advantages. Like this not only pure qualitative advantages are obtained but also economic ones.

Software FORNAX 2
Contact to thermography division of InfraTec

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Building thermography - VarioCAM® HDx
Building thermography - framework facade
Thermal image of a Multi-storey building
Building thermography - building-facade
Building thermography inside wall
Insulation damage on a door
Building thermography - framework house
Building thermography in industries

Advant­ages of this Ther­mo­graphy Solu­tions in this Applic­a­tion

MicroScan feature ImageIR

Micro­Scan – Quad­ruple the Image Format

Get further inform­a­tion about Micro­Scan

Behind the function is a fast-rotating MicroScan wheel, which is integrated into the camera. It ensures that four different individual exposures are taken per wheel revolution, which are offset laterally by half a pixel each. In this way, thermography achieves a new quality due to thermal images providing a quadrupled spatial resolution.

InfraTec Glossary Motorfocus

Motor Focus for ImageIR® Full Lenses – More Comfort

Further information about the motor focus

All interchangeable standard lens systems of the ImageIR® series can be combined with a motor focus unit, which is controlled by the camera operating software. It enables precise, remote and fast focusing. In addition, an autofocus function is available which operates reliably even with low image contrasts.

InfraTec thermography - Geometrical Resolution

Geomet­rical Resol­u­tion – Effi­cient Analysis of Complex Assem­blies

InfraTec's infrared cameras with cooled and uncooled detectors have native resolutions up to (1,920 × 1,536) IR pixels. Spatially high-resolution thermograms ensure that components and assemblies are imaged down to the smallest detail and thus defects can be reliably detected and precisely localised.

InfraTec thermography - Thermal resolution

Thermal Resol­u­tion – Determ­in­a­tion of Differ­ences of Only a Few Millikelvin

For detection of small temperature changes InfraTec's infrared cameras offer thermal resolutions up to < 15 mK in real-time operation. By using the Lock-in Thermography method it is possible to further increase this resolution significantly. For this purpose test objects are periodically excited and non-destructively examined for defects and irregularities.

infrared camera VarioCAM HD head of InfraTec

High-quality Light Metal Housing

Further details about the light metal housing

The very robust light metal housing is available with the protection degree IP67 and protects the camera against mechanical and thermal stress. In conjunction with protection degree preserving LEMO® connectors, it is excellently suited for use in harsh industrial environments. For applications under extreme environmental conditions, suitable protective housings are also available, e.g. made from stainless steel, which can optionally be equipped with a cooling and heating system.

MicroScan feature ImageIR

Micro­Scan – Quad­ruple the Image Format

Get further inform­a­tion about Micro­Scan

Behind the function is a fast-rotating MicroScan wheel, which is integrated into the camera. It ensures that four different individual exposures are taken per wheel revolution, which are offset laterally by half a pixel each. In this way, thermography achieves a new quality due to thermal images providing a quadrupled spatial resolution.

InfraTec Glossary Motorfocus

Motor Focus for ImageIR® Full Lenses – More Comfort

Further information about the motor focus

All interchangeable standard lens systems of the ImageIR® series can be combined with a motor focus unit, which is controlled by the camera operating software. It enables precise, remote and fast focusing. In addition, an autofocus function is available which operates reliably even with low image contrasts.

InfraTec thermography - Geometrical Resolution

Geomet­rical Resol­u­tion – Effi­cient Analysis of Complex Assem­blies

InfraTec's infrared cameras with cooled and uncooled detectors have native resolutions up to (1,920 × 1,536) IR pixels. Spatially high-resolution thermograms ensure that components and assemblies are imaged down to the smallest detail and thus defects can be reliably detected and precisely localised.

InfraTec thermography - Thermal resolution

Thermal Resol­u­tion – Determ­in­a­tion of Differ­ences of Only a Few Millikelvin

For detection of small temperature changes InfraTec's infrared cameras offer thermal resolutions up to < 15 mK in real-time operation. By using the Lock-in Thermography method it is possible to further increase this resolution significantly. For this purpose test objects are periodically excited and non-destructively examined for defects and irregularities.

infrared camera VarioCAM HD head of InfraTec

High-quality Light Metal Housing

Further details about the light metal housing

The very robust light metal housing is available with the protection degree IP67 and protects the camera against mechanical and thermal stress. In conjunction with protection degree preserving LEMO® connectors, it is excellently suited for use in harsh industrial environments. For applications under extreme environmental conditions, suitable protective housings are also available, e.g. made from stainless steel, which can optionally be equipped with a cooling and heating system.

Asso­ci­ated Indus­tries & Applic­a­tions

thermal imaging to inspect electrical installations

Inspec­tion of Elec­trical Install­a­tions

Inspec­tion of Elec­trical Install­a­tions

Search electrical installations or high-voltage nets with infrared camera systems for dangerous hotspots.

thermal imaging for predictive maintenance

Inspec­tion of Mech­an­ical Assem­blies

Inspec­tion of Mech­an­ical Assem­blies

Thermography reveals irregularities in heating of mechanical components in time.

All branches and application areas

Further Glossary Items relating to Building Ther­mo­graphy

Leak search by infrared thermal imaging

Leak Search | InfraTec Thermography Knowledge

Get further details about leak search

Leak search can be a difficult task, especially after water damages in hidden pipes, such as floor- and wall-mounted heaters.

Building thermography - Leakage detection

Leak Detection | InfraTec Thermography Knowledge

Get further details about leak detection

Thermal image capturing makes leak detection more efficient and simpler, especially when the searched spot is hidden.

infrared cameras

Thermal Camera, Infrared Camera | Thermography Knowledge

Get further inforamtion about thermal cameras

A thermal camera – also called IR camera, thermal imaging camera or infrared camera – is a measuring instrument used for non-contact measurements of the surface temperature of objects.

InfraTec Thermography Glossar - Temperature Measurement with Thermography - Picture credits: © iStock.com / nordroden

Temperature Measurement | InfraTec Thermography Knowledge

Get further information about temper­ature meas­ure­ment

One method of determining and monitoring temperature without contact is thermography. It can be used to make defects visible without destroying the test object during testing. 

Circuit board ImageIR® 10300

Thermal Image | InfraTec Thermography Knowledge

Get further information about thermal images

A thermal image can be captured with a infrared camera. To acquire the thermal image, the infrared radiation, which is generated by the heat of an object, is recorded by a thermographic camera.