{"id":17764,"date":"2013-10-23T08:54:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T08:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=2355b5c0af0f746764b5ed98a63c6548"},"modified":"2013-10-23T08:54:28","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T08:54:28","slug":"the-ventilation-omission-that-can-make-you-sweat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/the-ventilation-omission-that-can-make-you-sweat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ventilation Omission That Can Make You Sweat"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    If you connect an ERV or HRV to your heating and cooling ducts, you&rsquo;ll need a way to stop the undesired inward flow of outdoor air         <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/ventilation-omission-can-make-you-sweat\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/ventilation-erv-enthalpy-recovery-ventilator-energy-vanguard_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ERV connected to the return plenum\" width=\"144\" height=\"108\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/ventilation-omission-can-make-you-sweat\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/hvac-duct-motorized-zone-damper-ventilation.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Motorized damper allows or shuts off air flow\" width=\"144\" height=\"115\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;re designing a ventilation system, first you have to determine how much outdoor air the house needs. You can use <span>ASHRAE 62.2<\/span><span>A standard for residential mechanical ventilation systems established by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers. Among other requirements, the standard requires a home to have a mechanical ventilation system capable of ventilating at a rate of 1 cfm for every 100 square feet of occupiable space plus 7.5 cfm per occupant.<\/span> standard or the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyvanguard.com\/blog-building-science-HERS-BPI\/bid\/62474\/Lstiburek-Has-New-Ventilation-Standard-Resistance-May-Not-Be-Futile\" title=\"BSC-01\">BSC-01<\/a> standard for that task. Then you have to decide what type of ventilation system to use: positive pressure, negative pressure, or balanced. In many green homes, the balanced system is becoming a popular choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9480,9482,830,12219,6137],"class_list":["post-17764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-erv","tag-hrv","tag-hvac","tag-motorized-damper","tag-ventilation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}