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WUFI® Newsletter March 2025

 
 
WUFI® Pro 7 - new release

 
 

 
The new, completely revised version WUFI® Pro 7 is now available. The new user interface now allows for even easier and more intuitive operation.

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Updates to WUFI® Pro 6.8, 2D 4.6, Plus 3.5, and Passive 3.5

 
 

 
Users of one of the above-mentioned main versions of WUFI® can upgrade to the current version within the respective main version free of charge. The new versions include an updated database, as well as minor corrections and new features.
Here you can download the corresponding update for your version:

Download WUFI® Pro 6.8
Download WUFI® 2D 4.6
Download WUFI® Plus 3.5
Download WUFI® Passive 3.5


 
     
   
 
 
New online shop

 
 

 
Since our previous sales partner has ceased operations, all WUFI sales have been handled through our new sales partner Cleverbridge since December. This allows us to offer a wider range of payment methods, direct creation of a quote in the shopping cart, and faster, multilingual processing in numerous currencies.

Visit our new product page.

Note: For technical and data protection reasons, NO customer data/accounts have been transferred to Cleverbridge. Therefore, only your purchases made since January 2025 are recorded there.


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WUFI® workshops

 
 

 
Most of the English spoken WUFI® workshops and trainings are run by our partners. As soon as we get the dates, we publish them on our homepage. The following events are already scheduled:

United Kingdom
June 25-26, 2025 WUFI® Pro: Heat & Moisture Simulation Workshop - online
November 19-20, 2025 WUFI® Pro: Heat & Moisture Simulation Workshop - online

New Zealand/ Australia
March 20, 2025 – WUFI® User (WUFI Pro) - online
March 27, 2025 – WUFI® Advanced (WUFI 2D) - online
September 11, 2025 – WUFI® Fundamentals (WUFI Pro) - online
September 18, 2025 – WUFI® User (WUFI Pro) - online
September 25, 2025 – WUFI® Advanced (WUFI 2D) - online

For further information, registration, new dates and more please check out our homepage.


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WUFI® Pro 6 video training materials

 
 

 
WUFI® Pro 6 workshop recorded. As part of our 25th anniversary, we offer our recorded English lectures of the WUFI® Pro 6 workshop in our online shop.

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WUFI® Video: Program Tour

 
 

 
The WUFI® Program Tour allows a quick introduction into WUFI® Pro 6. Based on an example the procedure from entering a construction to evaluating the results is shown step by step. Hereby the most important functions are explained and the post-process module WUFI® Bio is discussed.

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WUFI® scientific project support

 
 

 
When purchasing a product from the WUFI® family, technical support is limited to questions about the installation, problems with your license key or program errors etc.
But you can also purchase packages for scientific projrct support for WUFI® in our online shop. Here we support you eg. concerning your specific projects, questions, verification of input and evaluation of the result data.


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WUFI® guidelines, manuals and tutorials

 
 

 
We offer many helpful guidelines, manuals and tutorials in our download section.

Check out our step by step guidelines for different applications like:

Evaluation and Assessment of hygrothermal Calculation Results
Assessing the risk of mould growth with WUFI® Bio (new)
Assessing the risk of corrosion with WUFI® Corr (new)
Evaluation of the dew water runoff risk in hydrophobic fiber insulation materials (updated)
Calculation of green roofs
Calculation of gravel roofs (updated)
Calculation of ventilated pitched roofs
Guideline for Using the Air Infiltration Source in WUFI® Pro (updated)
Calculation and Evaluation of an ETICS with Wood Fibre Insulation (new)



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WUFI® forum

 
 

 
Do you already know the WUFI® forum? Here you have the opportunity to exchange ideas with the WUFI® team and other users to discuss specific problems or questions about WUFI®. The forum is multilingual.

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Recommended reading

 
 

 
Andreas Zegowitz, Hartwig M. Künzel, Sabine Giglmeier
Water damage on buildings - New efficient drying methods
IBP White Paper (2023)
https://wufi.de/literatur/IBP_367_Whitepaper_en_03.pdf

Hartwig M. Künzel, Eri Tanaka, Daniel Zirkelbach
Tipping point for condensation water drainage on surfaces and interfaces of insulated wall assemblies – experimental method to define water content limits for hygrothermal simulation models.
56th International Conference of the Architectural Science Association (2023) p. 666 - 679
https://wufi.de/wp-content/uploads/Tipping-point-for-condensation-ASA-2023.pdf

Christian Bludau
Shading of flat roofs
2nd International Conference on Moisture in Buildings (ICMB23), online, 3-4 July 2023 (2023)
https://wufi.de/de/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2023-ICMB_Shading-of-flat-roofs.pdf

E. Tanaka, R. Schwerd, N. Pfabigan, J. Tieben, J. Bachinger, D. Zirkelbach
Hygrothermal limit curves and transient decay prediction for natural fibre insulation
2nd International Conference on Moisture in Buildings (ICMB23), online, 3-4 July 2023 (2023)
https://wufi.de/de/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2023-ICMB_transient-decay-prediction-for-natural-fibre-insulation.pdf

Daniel Zirkelbach, Johannes Tieben, Eri Tanaka, Notburga Pfabigan, Nis Andresen, Julia Bachinger, Bernd Nusser
Building components with insulation from sustainable raw materials: focus (hygro-)thermal conditions (ThermNat)
Final Report IGF-Project 271 EN (2023)
https://wufi.de/de/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/CORNET271EN_ThermNat_FinalReport.pdf

For further articles related to hygrothermal simulation please refer to our homepage.


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