Sentences with phrase «efficient building envelope»

A new home built with an energy efficient building envelope can pretty easily become a net zero home by adding on PV.

However, a new home that does not have an energy efficient building envelope may meet some arbitrary current code requirement, but will never become a net zero home — unless it later has the additional expense of undergoing a DER.

According to building professionals, the solution to achieving an energy efficient building envelope is to focus more on the roof.

The cottages are built using structural insulated panels for floor, walls and roof, creating an extremely energy efficient building envelope.

Fox Blocks Insulating Concrete Form Wall Systems provide an extremely energy efficient building envelope offering superior strength, sound, air quality, and well insulated walls.

The M - Series utilizes a steel rigid frame with an exceptionally efficient building envelope made from structurally insulated panels, comprised of pure insulation sandwiched between magnesium concrete boards that are impervious to water, and flame resistant.

In hot - humid climates, constructing thermally efficient building envelopes with controlled mechanical ventilation provides unique challenges for controlling humidity levels2.

The objective of this study was to identify the best performing, most energyefficient and cost - effective techniques to provide controlled mechanical ventilation and humidity control in hot - humid climates with thermally efficient building envelopes.

Not exact matches

Here are the energy efficiency rates your subsystems need to be operating at in order to qualify for a tax break: lighting systems need to be 25 % efficient, HVAC 15 % efficient, and the building envelope 10 % efficient.

Today's HVAC equipment is more energy efficient than ever and opportunities for improving the energy efficiency of building envelopes continue to evolve.

He is fluent in building envelope strategies and energy efficient construction systems, building science design principles, as well as mechanical system design, specification, and sizing for enhanced energy performance.

Indeed, as the building envelope and source equipment have become more efficient, HVAC design and installation quality remains mired in mediocrity, now becoming the Achilles Heel of home performance.

Ventilation is particularly important in energy efficient buildings with tight envelopes.

More than three decades ago, Craig was designing and building energy efficient homes that included features such as: low heat loss glazing packages, improved building envelope insulation packages, coupled thermal mass systems, and solar heating systems.

The Passive House standard proves the most rational, consistent and efficient basis for realising nZEB because it involves optimising the building envelope in accordance with the «fabric first» dictum.

We chose Passive House design — the world's leading building energy standard — to create a building envelope that is extremely efficient to begin with.

From an exergy efficiency perspective, building technologies which rely on solar, wind and biomass energy sources, coupled to thermally efficient envelopes, appropriate fenestration strategies [where we put what kind and size of windows] and natural ventilation / cooling are truly more elegant than «cutting butter with a chainsaw.»

The air - tight building envelope is paired with an energy recovery ventilation system, which ensures a flow of clean air for improved ventilation, energy - efficient heating and cooling, and prevents a build - up of condensation.

Encanto was considered to be reasonably power - efficient when it was built, but between then and now, processor manufacturers have increased the core count and lowered the thermal envelopes of their fastest machines, with the result being that the performance per watt of this machine is dismal when compared to others:

The home has three systems (solar, air conditioning, building envelope) integrated together to make it 80 % more efficient than a typical home.