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Airtight ConstructionSort results by: Date Added | Alphabetically - With a home energy audit, you can find out where your home is losing energy and find out what you can change to lower your energy bills.
- The term airtight is often used to describe houses with very little natural air leakage. You can have an airtight house with plenty of fresh air flowing through it - if it has a mechanical ventilation system.
- Controlled ventilation by means of a mechanical ventilation system is the only way to consistently, reliably, and predictably exchange the air in houses.
- Cost-effective fan and ventilation systems help energy-efficient homes stay healthy.
- How to make homes tight and ventilate right.
- The Home Ventilating Institute (HVI) offers guidelines on how to select the right ventilation system for your home, how much air it should move and why, types of ventilation systems, and where to get more information on ventilation standards.
- Heat recovery ventilators (HRV) and energy recovery ventilators (ERV) are air exchange systems that help to enhance indoor air quality and minimize heating costs.
- This nonprofit organization is the leading name in performance certification of residential ventilation products, providing the link between ventilation and healthy, energy-efficient homes.
- Tight, energy-saving homes have prompted makers of ventilators to develop new, innovative products and systems.
- If we still rode horses every day, we’d never have a barn attached to the house because the animal odors would be objectionable. Yet houses routinely have an attached garage which contains much more unhealthy odors.
- Tips for building or retrofitting your home for energy efficiency, cost-savings, and indoor air quality
- Builders tend to focus more on energy and environmental conservation in their selection of green features; and may inadvertently contribute to poor indoor air quality (IAQ).
- All green building programs require mechanical ventilation individually designed for each house.
- Make your home more energy efficient and save.
- The harmonious interaction with nature is the guiding principle of the Building Biology approach to healthy home building.
- One of the most important ideas to emerge in recent years is the concept that a house is much more than an assemblage of materials. Instead, building scientists and researchers now view a house as an interactive system.
- Viewing the whole house as an integrated system helps.
- With the ill effects of poor indoor air quality often in the news these days, it pays to
design and build a house that’s healthy from the start.
- Understanding the physics of indoor air movement for a healthier home.
- What is known about tight construction, why it is a good idea, and how it is integral to systematic house design and construction.
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