Nevertheless, there is still a great uncertainty about the dynamic behavior of thermal bridges and few energy simulation programs allow implementing them considering their thermal inertia.
To obtain more information about the thermal response of thermal bridges, a series of tests have been carried out in a guarded hot box testing facility. The characteristics of a pillar thermal bridge have been studied in both steady and dynamic regime, being one of the main objectives of this study the determination of the area of influence of a thermal bridge. For this purpose, test results are compared with simulation ones.