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We're running it
again,
Integrated HVAC Engineering: Mastering Comfort, Health,
and Efficiency.
2016 ACI National Home Performance
Conference
Austin, Texas
Hosted by
Home Performance Coalition
Seminars made possible with funding
from Uponor.
Seminar #1: Providing a Comfort Value Proposition to
Homeowners: Understanding Comfort Metrics
Comfort is a critical aspect of building performance
that is at the heart of customers’ satisfaction in their
homes. Yet comfort is an elusive target, since the
experience of comfort varies from person to person and
changes over time. This session will focus on specific
applications—both existing and conceptual—for evaluating and
predicting comfort in residential buildings, and present the
results of actual comfort measurements in homes. In this
session you’ll learn about ASHRAE Standard 55 Thermal
Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy, its history
and scope, as well as data and projects incorporating
comfort metrics.
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Learning Objectives:
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Become familiar with the impacts of architectural design,
building enclosures and space conditioning systems related
to occupant comfort.
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Be able to describe how low load homes may impact occupant
comfort.
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Be able to describe the key metrics for compliance with
ASHRAE Standard 55 Thermal Environmental Conditions for
Human Occupancy and become familiar with using the CBE /
ASHRAE 55 on-line thermal comfort compliance tool.
Seminar #2: The Unintended Consequences of Energy
Conservation: Why the 3 Little Pigs Must Die
Abstract: If Howard Cosell were an engineer…in the Team
Green corner representing conservation, are the industry
favorites of enclosure improvements and energy efficiency.
In the Team Chaos corner representing entropy is the
relatively unknown but oh so important exergy efficiency.
Judging the match are the three little pigs of combustion,
customization and complexity. Before your eyes you will see
how two “energy” rights make an “exergy” wrong and why the
porkers must die. This is THE epic irony of the 21st
century; a contest laced with unintended consequences
conflicting with the very philosophies of sustainability and
earth stewardship. You’ll want front row seats for this
match up.
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Learning Objectives:
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Recognize the flaws in conservation of energy
as the exclusives solution to sustainability.
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Describe why matching energy demands with
energy sources must include an evaluation of temperatures.
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Explain why low grade non industrial energy
from renewables is ideally matched to non-industrial
applications such as space heating and cooling
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