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CLEARING THE AIR 2
February 28, 2025
Part 2 examines specific code requirements for effective whole-house ventilation, ensuring occupant safety, health, and welfare…
CLEARING THE AIR
February 28, 2025
Modern codes and construction practices create tighter homes, saving energy, enhancing comfort, and potentially increasing durability. These codes and practices minimize air infiltration. Current energy codes require specific air sealing and often mandate blower door testing to verify reduced leakage…
PUT ON YOUR ENERGY GLASSES
February 12, 2025
Modern construction typically includes many different trades who each contribute unique skills toward the construction of new buildings. To start, one team will form and pour the foundation. Once those forms have been stripped, a second team will arrive to begin framing…
Energy Code Compliance
January 14, 2025
This blog post further explores the importance of energy code compliance. A continuation of our last post here if you missed it, we dive into the key components involved and the steps necessary to achieve compliance. Energy codes can be complex and challenging to interpret, requiring specialized knowledge and expertise. For this reason, the State of Utah provides energy code training to increases the industry’s understanding of the energy code…
Utah Energy Education
October 31, 2024
Energy codes provide multiple benefits, including reduced costs for property owners in the form of lower energy bills, increased temperature control for optimal comfort and helping the state conserve local resources. Energy codes also act as a vital benchmark for ensuring that new and existing buildings consume energy efficiently, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions…
2021 IECC & IRC: DUCT SEALING
July 17, 2024
True or False: Duct sealing is not important when the duct is inside the thermal envelope, as there is no leakage to outside.
Hopefully your response is False. Over the past several years, Mitch Richardson with Building Science West have tested duct systems in at least six problem homes where the duct system leakage rate was excessive to the point that they could not attain the 25-pascal test pressure…
2025 -2026
Clearing the Air 2
February 28, 2025
Clearing the Air
February 28, 2025
Energy Glasses
February 12, 2025
Energy Code Compliance
January 14, 2025
2023-2024
Utah Energy Education
October 31, 2024
2021 IECC & IRC: Duct Sealing
July 17, 2024
Forced Air Heating & Cooling Systems – Energy Efficient Duct Installation Practices
June 14, 2024
Is a Return Air Inlet Required in Every Bedroom?
June 14, 2024
Duct Leakage Testing
June 14, 2024
The Least Sexy Efficiency Upgrade for New Construction Just May Be One of the Best
June 14, 2024
Balanced Mechanical Ventilation
April 8, 2023
The Devil is in the Details
March 15, 2023
The Forgotten Air Barrier – Garage Partition Walls
February 8, 2023
Ventilation for a Healthy and Comfortable Home
January 30, 2023
Poor HVAC Airflow – Part 2
January 16, 2023
2020-2022
Building Air Leakage, Testing, and Mechanical Ventilation
December 20, 2022
Energy & Mechanical Code Failure – Poor Access to HVAC Systems in Attics
August 4, 2022
ACCA Manual J Load Calculations
August 3, 2022
Poor HVAC Airflow – Part 1
June 29, 2022
Questions from an HVAC Contractor – Energy Recovery Ventilators and Make-Up Air
May 12, 2022
Utah’s Residential Energy Code Field Study Shows a Big Opportunity for Cost Savings and Emissions Reductions
April 13, 2022
HVAC Systems, Ventilation, Filtration and COVID-19
February 10, 2022
Drawing Combustion Air out of Air Sealed Buildings – is it Safe?
February 2, 2022
Foil-Faced Bubble Wrap Duct “Insulation”
October 2, 2021
Introduction to the Energy Code – Is My Project Commercial or Residential?
February 2, 2021
Townhouses and the RES Check Compliance Option
January 14, 2021
Thermal Factors – R-values, U-factors & SHGCs – Consistency on all Construction Documents
September 29, 2020
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