{"id":256267,"date":"2017-02-08T11:48:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T11:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=b59aadcb7a344d46e89d384a96bb3908"},"modified":"2017-02-08T11:48:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T11:48:35","slug":"should-balanced-ventilation-be-required-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/should-balanced-ventilation-be-required-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Balanced Ventilation Be Required?"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Prime:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                     prime        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    Aspen&rsquo;s new energy code requires balanced mechanical ventilation with recovery        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/should-balanced-ventilation-be-required\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/1-ventilation-energy-enthalpy-recovery-ventilator-erv-humidity.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"An ERV provides balanced ventilation with recovery\" width=\"144\" height=\"108\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;You know where this is going, right? Codes will eventually require <span>balanced ventilation<\/span><span>Mechanical ventilation system in which separate, balanced fans exhaust stale indoor air and bring in fresh outdoor air in equal amounts; often includes heat recovery or heat and moisture recovery (see heat-recovery ventilator and energy-recovery ventilator).<\/p>\n<p><\/span>.&#8221; I&#8217;ve heard people say this more than once in the past year or so. As someone who has been attending the semiannual meeting of the <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> committee, I&#8217;ve been skeptical. Then I read the new Aspen energy code and saw the first evidence that this really could happen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/should-balanced-ventilation-be-required\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/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":[9479,3447,14346,9480,14347,9482,6137],"class_list":["post-256267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-balanced-ventilation","tag-energy-code","tag-energy-recovery-ventilation","tag-erv","tag-heat-recovery-ventilation","tag-hrv","tag-ventilation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256267","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=256267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}