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Ventilation in the 2019 California Energy Code
It is not unusual for California to be first and unique. Just one year after the 1973 oil embargo exposed this country’s reliance on foreign oil, California was the first state to implement a ...
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Ventilation in the 2019 California Energy Code
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It is not unusual for California to be first and unique. Just one year after the 1973 oil embargo exposed this country’s reliance on foreign oil, California was the first state to implement a ... [continue reading]
Ventilation: The Only Way That Passive Vents Will Work
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Exhaust-only ventilation is one of the most common strategies for single-family and multifamily buildings alike. In multifamily structures, exhaust is pulled out of the apartments, often in bathrooms and/or kitchens, and fresh air is ... [continue reading]
Boiler Survey Data Bonanza
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In 2014, Steven Winter Associates (SWA) was asked to review an entire portfolio of very similar buildings with the intention of developing a current inventory of heating equipment and identifying maintenance and capital upgrade priorities. A ... [continue reading]
The Unexpected Energy Benefits of Mechanically Vented Crawl Spaces
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The debate on how best to treat crawl spaces has gone on for decades, and the building codes regulating crawl space design have constantly evolved. For a long time the entrenched thinking was to rely ... [continue reading]
Kitchen Ventilation
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There is an unvented combustion appliance that people use every day that is often ignored [continue reading]
A/C in the Southeast
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Part 1: Challenges of Cooling in Hot-Humid Climates [continue reading]
Multifamily Ventilation Retrofits for Energy Savings
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Ever feel like something's missing from your multifamily audit? It could be the ventilation system. [continue reading]
ASHRAE in Weatherization
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Over the years, the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) has gone through a number of significant changes, trying to become more scientific and technical. There has been frequent controversy, however, about how tight a house should ... [continue reading]
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