Tag: infiltration

  • The Mixed-Up IAQ and Infiltration Limit Blues

    Subtitle:  The ventilation wars inspired this song by Eric Werling Images:  Last week, I caught the second day of Building Science Corporation’s Experts’ Session. (Click the link to download the presentations from the BSC website.) Joe Lstiburek spoke the whole day about ventilation, and I’ll be writing an article about that soon. At the end…

  • 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…