
Research and Applications in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation – Zingoni (Ed.)
© 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00061-2
Application and developments of the infrared thermography
in the building construction sector
S. Knapp
IFDB – Professor Hillemeier & Knapp GmbH, Berlin, Germany
B. Hillemeier
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
SUMMARY
Infrared thermography is an image producing tech-
nique that measures the infrared radiation from the
surface of a body and associates the distribution of
radiation or temperature in a false-color image.
This method is used primarily in the construction
physics sector as a passive