Tag: air leakage
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How Duct Leakage Steals Twice
Subtitle: Where duct leaks occur matters as much as how much leaks Images: …
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Is the Passivhaus Program Truly Innovative?
Subtitle: Joseph Lstiburek said it’s the ONLY place where innovation is happening — but is he right? Images: Last month, Joe Lstiburek gave the fifth annual Twitterview † from his crawl space. (Peter Troast of Energy Circle has published the transcript of this year’s event.) One of the pearls of wisdom dispensed by Joe was…
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An Interview with Dr. Joseph Lstiburek
Subtitle: Joe explains BSC’s new ventilation standard, why tracer gas is a better measure of infiltration than blower doors, and his plans for a ventilation standard for existing homes Images: Dr. Joe Lstiburek of Building Science Corporation is on a mission. The issue is residential ventilation. He contends that the residential ventilation standard, ASHRAE 62.2A…
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Does Your Air Barrier Work in Both Directions?
Subtitle: An experiment comparing housewrap and taped sheathing under positive and negative pressure Images: …