Tag: ventilation rate
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…