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SUMMARY:Cutting Edge Ventilation to Improve IAQ Even With Tight Air Sealing
DESCRIPTION:A home today must not only be high performing\, resilient and built using sustainable methods\, the home must provide the individuals living within it a healthy environment. There are many factors that contribute to the overall healthy environment we provide our homeowners\, but one of the most critical is the quality of the air they breathe. This webinar will briefly cover some ventilation basics before delving into the pros and cons of the various system types. Particular focus will be placed on the efficiency and indoor air quality advantages of balanced ventilation systems with recovery (HRVs/ERVs) and how indoor air quality automation will shape the future. \nLearning Objectives:\n1. Understand why tighter homes without good ventilation can be problematic for indoor air quality \n2. Understand the basics of quality ventilation including product certification and airflow optimization and verification \n3. Understand the options for whole home ventilation along with the pros and cons of each \n4. Understand in particular the health and efficiency benefits and installation options of balanced ventilation with recovery (HRVs and ERVs).
URL:https://efficiencyfirstca.org/event/cutting-edge-ventilation-to-improve-iaq-even-with-tight-air-sealing-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:EEBA
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SUMMARY:Energy Codes are Getting Complicated! It’s time for a simpler approach
DESCRIPTION:In the 2006 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC)\, the primary residential provisions of the code (Chapter 4) consisted of four pages. That same chapter in the 2021 IECC is 21 pages long! Mandatory\, prescriptive\, performance\, energy rating index\, additional efficiency packages and UA trade-offs all combine to make IECC compliance complicated. \nPrescriptive compliance is increasingly more expensive and complicated to use\, and the performance compliance option doesn’t allow consideration for high efficiency equipment. The energy rating index path provides a whole-house performance approach but has aggressive targets that are complicated with amendments for ventilation requirements and no requirements for quality assurance oversight of third parties. \nIf the energy code’s primary purpose is to reduce energy consumption\, why can’t we set performance goals and let builders figure out how to achieve it? \nOne recent example of this approach is in Texas. Texas House Bill 3215 updated the state’s universal energy code compliance pathway to allow builders to use the energy rating index for energy code compliance across the state\, in lieu of the state energy code or any stretch code adopted by municipalities. The legislation ratchets down target ERI scores to improve efficiency through 2028\, allowing builders to plan for future efficiency requirements. \nAttend this webinar to learn how a simpler approach to energy code compliance can work\, how it can be used to set a path to net-zero energy and how to implement it in your state. \n  \nLearning Objectives: \n\nLearn about the changes and complexities of the IECC over time.\nUnderstand how the energy code can be simplified.\nBe able to describe how a simplified performance-based approach has worked in other states.\nLearn how a performance-based energy code approach can be used to get builders to net-zero homes more quickly.
URL:https://efficiencyfirstca.org/event/energy-codes-are-getting-complicated-its-time-for-a-simpler-approach/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Choosing a low carbon\, high performing insulation
DESCRIPTION:Hempitecture CEO\, Matthew Mead\, provides an overview of the natural fiber insulation market that is rapidly developing to support low embodied carbon construction. Reviewing different products and strategies\, this session will discuss how to achieve the lowest total carbon footprint for a project after accounting for both embodied carbon and operational carbon in the building. \nLearning Objectives: \n\nDiscover low embodied carbon insulations.\nLearn about natural fiber insulation product forms (batt\, loose-fill\, board).\nUnderstand how to measure in-wall performance (R-value + thermal mass + air penetration + vapor permeability).\nDemonstrate installing to maximize reported performance.
URL:https://efficiencyfirstca.org/event/choosing-a-low-carbon-high-performing-insulation/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:EEBA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240619T120000
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SUMMARY:Cutting Edge Ventilation to Improve IAQ Even With Tight Air Sealing
DESCRIPTION:A home today must not only be high performing\, resilient and built using sustainable methods\, the home must provide the individuals living within it a healthy environment. There are many factors that contribute to the overall healthy environment we provide our homeowners\, but one of the most critical is the quality of the air they breathe. This webinar will briefly cover some ventilation basics before delving into the pros and cons of the various system types. Particular focus will be placed on the efficiency and indoor air quality advantages of balanced ventilation systems with recovery (HRVs/ERVs) and how indoor air quality automation will shape the future. \nLearning Objectives:\n1. Understand why tighter homes without good ventilation can be problematic for indoor air quality \n2. Understand the basics of quality ventilation including product certification and airflow optimization and verification \n3. Understand the options for whole home ventilation along with the pros and cons of each \n4. Understand in particular the health and efficiency benefits and installation options of balanced ventilation with recovery (HRVs and ERVs).
URL:https://efficiencyfirstca.org/event/cutting-edge-ventilation-to-improve-iaq-even-with-tight-air-sealing/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:EEBA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240618T120000
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SUMMARY:Tips and Tricks To Grow Your Business with High Performance Practices
DESCRIPTION:More energy efficient homes represent a huge\, and growing\, opportunity for builders and remodelers to address homeowner demands. Driven by a growing social consciousness\, new rebate programs and rising energy costs\, homeowners want to explore options and will be more likely to commit. Plus\, new technologies are making the process more efficient and effective. In this session\, building performance experts share best practices to capitalize on the growing business opportunity\, and help you feel good about your contribution to the planet. \nLearning Objectives: \n1. Quantify the business opportunity for both retrofit and new construction residential projects. \n2. Discuss how to enable technology to do the hard work of finding the right building performance solutions for a variety of climates that can achieve a number of results\, from carbon neutral to zero net energy. \n3. Understand consumer demand and how to leverage it through marketing and sales activities. \n4. Learn about all the incentives available to make this opportunity as fruitful as possible.
URL:https://efficiencyfirstca.org/event/tips-and-tricks-to-grow-your-business-with-high-performance-practices/
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