Sentences with phrase «energy 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.

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.

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.

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.