Glossary Category:

Build-up

The term used when something accumulates to an undesirable or excessive amount. Example is the accumulation of ice on a roadway.

Building Thermal Envelope

The exterior walls, floor, roof and any other building element that encloses condition space or provides a boundary between conditioned space and exempt or unconditioned space.

Buss bars

The electrical conductors of a circuit breaker box used to carry power to circuit breakers.

Cabana

A small building usually next to a swimming pool.