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Green Retrofit for Your Home
• Green Roundtable• September 12, 2009
• Mark Price• Steven Winter Associates, Inc.
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LEED AP + Homes Single Family – Custom Gut Rehab / Deep Energy Retrofit Multi-Family Public / BHA Consulting / Zero-Energy
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I assume:• You Have a home• You can (are authorized to) make changes
to your home• You want to conserve:
– Resources– Money– Energy– Carbon– Your home
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• “The practice of increasing the efficiency with which buildings and their sites use and harvest energy, water, and materials, and reducing building impacts on human health and the environment, through better siting, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and removal.” - Wikipedia
What is Green?
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What is Green?• Efficient
– Use of materials– Use of energy/water– The greenest building is the one you don’t
have to build• Thinking of impacts beyond cost• Healthy/Safe• Good Building
– Best practices– Smart
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Climate Change
• Source: US EPA
• www.epa.gov/climatechange/science
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Top 7 Environmental Impacts:• 1. Cars and light trucks• 2. Meat and poultry production• 3. Fruit, vegetable and grain production• 4. Home heating, hot water and air conditioning• 5. Household appliance and lighting use• 6. Home construction• 7. Household water and sewage• From The Consumer’s Guide to Effective
Environmental Choices, Brower and Leon, Three Rivers Press 1999
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Minimize demand for water / chemicals
No invasive speciesLow water Landscaping
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Reduce local heat island effects
Reducing/Shading of Hardscapes
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Use rainwater or reuse greywater.
Water Re-use
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Minimize water demand for landscape irrigation.
High-efficiency Irrigation System when used
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Minimize water demand for indoor use.
Efficient Indoor Water Use
•Toilets: 1.3 GPF Showerheads: 1.75 GPM Faucet aerators: 1.0-.5 GPM
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Increase the service life of the building – durability planning
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Rain screen wall assembly
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Air/thermal barrier continuity
Thermal bypass checklist – Build tight, ventilate right
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Minimize air leakage into and out of conditioned space.
Blower Door Test• Depressurizes the
house• Measures how well
the house contains pressure
• Find the leaks
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Use high performance windows
For comfort, durability, and energy savings
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Minimize leaks in heating and cooling distribution systems.
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Use high performance HVAC equipment
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Size HVAC equipment properly
Sized with Manual J – Required by code, but rarely done.
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Charge refrigerant properly
Refrigerant charge/ air flow verified
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Efficient water distribution system & Equipment.
EA 7: Water Heating
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Minimize lighting & appliance energy demand.
ENERGY STAR labeled fixtures & appliances
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Use renewable electric generation system.
Renewable energy
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Use framing materials efficiently.
4’4’
4’4’
4’
24-in
ch g
rid
4’
4’
Plywoodsoffit
16”
2” ventstrip
4’
8’
16” 16” 16”
2 strips of plywood4 feet wide and1 strip 2 feet wide
2’-10”
16’-2” *9’-7”
19’-2” *
Cut plywoodsheet into equalstrips for soffitassembly. Paint/seal upper andlower surfacesof soffit as wellas edges.
* The 2"dimensioncomes fromassumingthat 1" thickinsulationsheathing isinstalled overframing.
Efficient framing techniques
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Use environmentally preferable products
• Luan plywood is considered tropical!– Cabinets, hollow-core doors, floor
underlayment, pull down stairs
Tropical Hardwood FSC-Certified
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Minimize leakage of combustion gases
Combustion Venting
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Outdoor air ventilation
Meets ASHRAE 62.2
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Ensure supply air is distributed to conditioned spaces.
Supply Air Distribution (Manual D)
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Reduce exposure to airborne particulates that affect
respiration
Supply Air Filtration
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Protect occupants from exposure to contaminants.
Contaminant Control
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EPA Radon Zones in southern
New England
RED = Zone 1Orange = Zone 2Yellow = Zone 3
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USGBC Green Home Guide: REGREEN
• Based on the LEED • for Homes Standard• http://• www.greenhomeguide.org/
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Thanks!
• Mark Price• Steven Winter Associates, Inc.
• [email protected]• www.swinter.com