Technical Corner
Pro Clima is a leading innovation and research driven product manufacturer guided by building science.
We foster in-house expertise in Australia, and across our global network, to produce the best materials and building methods that ensure we can all design, build, work, and live in buildings that perform.
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Above Sheathing Ventilation - Part 0: Flat Roofs
by Jesse Clarke
Innovation and R&D Manager
What’s a Ventilated Flat Roof? It is a low-pitched roof (≤10º) with an additional ventilated cavity space below the roof cladding. According to our European colleagues, it provides the opportunity to implement a diffusion open/permeable layer on the outer side of the insulation layer.
Above Sheathing Ventilation – Part 3: Fighting the Sun
by Jesse Clarke
Innovation and R&D Manager
In Part 2 of this series, our brave new roof used Above Sheathing Ventilation (ASV) to battle the dark forces of winter. We showed how ASV can help reduce or even eliminate the evil accumulation of moisture beneath roofing material. Summer brings another set of challenges, but ASV is ready to take on the fierce forces of the Sun!
Above Sheathing Ventilation – Part 2: The Blue Planet
by Jesse Clarke
Innovation and R&D Manager
We are wet beings living on a wet planet, but we want our buildings to be as dry as possible in order to be durable and to provide healthy places to live, work and play.
Thermoplastic Elastomer Ether Esters: What are they, how do they work?
by Jesse Clarke
Innovation and R&D Manager
Exterior membranes for roofs and walls by pro clima incorporate a monolithic Thermoplastic Elastomer Ether Ester (TEEE) film.
Above Sheathing Ventilation - Part 1: Rise of the Cavity
by Jesse Clarke
Innovation and R&D Manager
Every superhero needs one. If Above Sheathing Ventilation (ASV) is the superhero of roofs that work, then how and why did ASV come into being?
This is Australia
by Jesse Clarke
Innovation and R&D Manager
The 1985 song “Sounds of Then” pretty much sums up how we view ourselves almost 35 years later. A country blessed with beautiful weather, warm and humid with tropical evening storms. A far cry from rainy drizzle in the UK from where we inherited many things including Mark ‘Cal’ Callaghan.