Tag: ASHRAE 62.2

  • The RESNET Standard Becomes the New Ventilation Battleground

    Prime:  prime Subtitle:  A new amendment from RESNET would reduce the use of ASHRAE 62.2-2013 in the HERS Standards Images:  Just because I haven’t written about the jockeying over ventilation rates and strategies with the ASHRAE 62.2A standard for residential mechanical ventilation systems established by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers. Among…

  • An Interview with Dr. Iain Walker on Ventilation

    Subtitle:  Another installment in the great debate about residential ventilation and indoor air quality Images:  The debate over how much to ventilate a home has been going on a long time. Last year, Building Science Corporation introduced its own standard to compete against ASHRAE 62.2A standard for residential mechanical ventilation systems established by the American…

  • ASHRAE 62.2 Committee Chair Defends Ventilation Standard

    Subtitle:  Paul Francisco says there are good reasons not to lower ventilation rates, and that exhaust ventilation isn’t necessarily worse than supply or balanced ventilation Images:  The great ventilation debate of 2013 roars on. Last month, I wrote about Building Science Corporation’s residential ventilation standard for new homes, to be released officially at Building Science…

  • Resistance May NOT Be Futile in the Residential Ventilation Wars

    Subtitle:  The Building Science Corporation has created a ventilation standard to compete against ASHRAE 62.2 Images:  “ASHRAE 62 is the only national consensus standard document there is. Follow 62.2. Resistance is futile.” So said Dr. Max Sherman last summer in a presentation for the Building America Technical Update meeting. (Download pdf official report here.) That…

  • Ventilation Requirements for Weatherized Homes

    Subtitle:  Is the ASHRAE 62.2 ventilation standard too complex and expensive? Images:  I went to school with Cajuns in south Louisiana, and fights were a big deal. They happened frequently, and when they did, a small crowd would gather. The noise would grow quickly and soon everyone in the schoolyard would run over to where…