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If some cause and effect relationships are not fully established
scientifically - it’s best to take precautionary measures.
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If building to ASHRAE Standards is considered an upgrade, then
building anything below an ASHRAE Standard must be considered a
downgrade...so are you paying too much for downgrades? Think about it.
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Creating 2800°F flame temperatures in a 98% efficient furnace or
boiler to maintain 72°F is not sustainable no matter how you
look at it.
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Proponents of naturally ventilated spaces might want to consider
the stack effect and powerful draft it pulls when the outside
air is hot, humid and polluted. At over 10 air changes per hour
it only takes minutes for the quality of the indoor air to
become the quality of the outdoor air.
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We don’t inhale thermal comfort - it's sensed predominately
through our skin with radiation being one of the defining
factors - so remind me why we try to use air exclusively to
condition people?
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100% of all condensation problems in buildings conditioned
exclusively with air did not have radiant cooling panels to
blame. Go figure.
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Once again for the gazillionth time…indoor air quality is not a
proxy for thermal comfort quality.
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We're repositioning HVAC under the healthcare, cash flow mgmt. &
asset protection industry instead of construction, are you ok
with that?
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Don’t ya just wish the makers of Clearasil would come up with
paint to vanish away all the control acne adoring the walls of
American homes?
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Are we done polishing the cannon balls in architecture, building
construction and engineering? I mean, if you can’t measure
beyond two decimals places it hardly makes sense to calculate to
four!
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If architects and their clients really cared about energy and
IEQ they’d stop commissioning origami buildings.
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Developers of CADD programs have figured out how to make
everything plumb, level and square so that contractors have
something to laugh at over safety meetings and coffee breaks.
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How do you figure that an electric based HVAC system is 100%
efficient when it’s connected to a coal fired power plant where
the cooling tower spews copious amounts of unused energy into
the environment? A cooling tower at a power plant is by far the biggest
oxymoron known to mankind.
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Building scientists, interior designers, HVAC and lighting
engineers are to the building as DNA is to the body. This is why
architects should only be commissioned after the DNA has been
defined.
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Architecture constructs a judgment conflict between what you
spend on sight stimulations versus what you spend on what you
smell + feel + hear.
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A very famous architect recently stated something that could be
interpreted as, “sustainability is thoughtless and a
mantra for less talented people to get their way.” You’ll have
to guess who it is but his first name was Frank and his last
name rhymes with scary.
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125 million visual receptors per eye vs. appx 166,000 thermal
sensors in the skin - is why, “In a Town Called Comfort, Only
the Blind Can See”.
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If construction were a ProAm boxing match, where would the
minimum requirements of the building codes be positioned?
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If ASHRAE's High Performance Buildings is not the cook book for
your new building you may want to look for another chef.
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Let’s make complicated programmable thermostats’ with small
little buttons and a 20 page manual printed in #6 font and then
sell them to older people who have or are losing their visual
acuity, manual dexterity and cognitive ability. Duh?
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Is it true - if all one knows about is air filtration,
everything looks like particulate?
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100% of all hardwood flooring problems in buildings conditioned
exclusively with air did not have radiant floor heating to
blame.
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EcoBling for houses, a sure cure for EcoGuilt - the gift that
keeps on giving! Available now without prescription at your
local RES outlet.
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Sales before science is just wrong! A message to those selling
high efficiency appliances for systems needing to operate above
the combustion gas dew point.
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The hereditary conflict between consumer and contractor is borne
unto every construction project from the process of building for
bullion versus building for the body.
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We can move forward once the construction industry grasps the H
in HVAC is not exclusively heating comfort, the V is not
exclusively air quality and the AC is not exclusively cooling
comfort.
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They are part of the autonomic functions of the body, the ASHRAE
Standards attempt to reflect them and the commerce of
contracting gets to ignore them. Guess what “they” are?
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Help me understand why most HVAC technicians say separate ventilation
systems are more effective but the problem with hydronics is you
need one? Duh?
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If the thermostat is supposed to be our thermal ambassador to
the HVAC system, why doesn’t it sense what we sense? Does this
make sense?
