Starting From Home Challenge 5 Year Project Plan
The Starting From Home Challenge is a post secondary school based student occupied home, retrofit competition integrating school departments and disciplines, students, contractors, and homeowners. It |
Starting From Home Challenge Project Overview and Description
The Starting From Home Challenge is a post secondary school based student occupied home, retrofit competition integrating school departments and disciplines, students, contractors, and homeowners. It |
Make Room for the Caddy
Attached garages are essentially just another room in the house. Imagine parking a car in your living room! But we store all the things we don't want in the house in the garage. It |
Good Ventilation Is An Integral Part of Green Building
"Green" building is sustainable and wholistic building, understanding that the home is a complete system - from the roof to the walls to the occupants. Green homes are very energy efficient and |
Energy Assesments and Audits
Weather changes cost money! That's not news. One thing we can be sure of is that there will be weather! But the price of oil and gas is bouncing around like lacrosse ball in a handball court. You kno |
AirTest PM2500 Particle Meter
The PM2500 represents a dramatic breakthrough in the cost of laser particle measurement technology. Now this important air quality parameter can be monitored easily, in the home, office or wherever it |
Some Energy Tools from Analysis North
Phil Kaluza at EnergyTools and Analysis North of Anchorage, AK has developed some really nifty energy tools that he has been willing to share with the rest of the world. These are Excel based tools. |
ASHRAE 62.2-2007
ASHRAE 62.2-2007 is the national ventilation Standard. It is a “consensus” document developed by the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers. |
Potential Safety Hazards Associated with Weatherizing
Potential Safety Hazards Associated with Weatherizing
Part 1: Insulating Homes with Knob and Tube Wiring
Should homes with "knob and tube wiring" add additional insulation? In many st |
The season for whole house comfort ventilators
When it is cooler outside than it is inside, that difference in temperature can effectively cool the interior of your home at little cost. Just opening the windows doesn’t always do it, howeve |
Product Certification is Vital to Honest Performance Claims
"Imitation is the highest form of flattery."
Yes, our mothers told us this statement is true and through the years we’ve seen this in business practices as well. But what happens when th |
Building Tightness Limits
Building Tightness Limits (BTL) can provide a guideline for tightening up a house.
(Parts of this are excerpted from The Residential Ventilation Handbook by Paul H. Raymer published by M |
ASHRAE 62.2-2010 System Documentation Form
In order to verify that a ventilation system has been installed to meet the ASHRAE 62.2-2010 Standard, the system needs to be documented per section 6.2 of the Standard. This form provides a sim |
RESNET 380-2016 Standard
ANSI/RESNET/ICC 380-2016 Standard for Testing Airtightness of Building Enclosures, Airtightness of Heating and Cooling Air Distribution Systems, and Airflow of Mechanical Ventilation Systems. "Standar |
