How to Think About Energy in Buildings
Marc Rosenbaum's guide to thinking about, calculating, and prioritizing enclosures, mechanical systems, and renewables in new and existing buildings.
by Marc Rosenbaum
ASHRAE 62.2 Ventilation for Single-Family Dwellings
Instructor Rick Karg is has been a member of the ASHRAE 62.2 ventilation committee since 2007 and heads the existing dwellings group. He served as the lead editor of ASHRAE’s Guideline 24-2015, a document that supplements the ASHRAE 62.2 standard.
by Rick Karg
Deep Energy Retrofits
Learn how to best 'fix what you have'. If you are serious about transformative energy upgrades in existing residential and commercial buildings up to 45,000 square feet this course is right for you.
by Marc Rosenbaum
Proper Commissioning (Cx) for all Building Types & Technologies
This caters to all who are interested in seriously enhancing their knowledge and exposure to a broad spectrum of commissioning procedures supporting a wide range of residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities.
by Khaled Yousef
Zero Net Energy Buildings
A step-by-step guide to designing zero net energy buildings, including energy modeling, architectural drawings, and construction strategies with expert Marc Rosenbaum.
by Marc Rosenbaum
Energy Grid of the Future
Grid of the Future pilot program, which offered Maine homeowners a discount on smart appliances (heat pumps, water heaters, smart EV chargers, and batteries) in exchange for aggregated remote control of those devices as a Virtual Peaker power plant
by Fortunat Mueller
Radiant Cooling and Heating
Millions of dollars are now being invested into radiant cooling and heating and thermal comfort research. In this free 1-hour lecture, Robert will take you through the radiant design sequence he has used for 30 years.
by Robert Bean
Become a Building Enclosure Control Freak and Do Residential Ventilation Right
Learn from industry expert Allison Bailes in this free course on building enclosures and controls. This lecture is designed for engineers, architects, builders, trade contractors, and energy raters.
by Allison Bailes III
Unvented Roofs without Spray Foam: The Rest of the Story
Examine cellulose vs. fiberglass insulation, interior vapor control membranes, diffusion vents at the ridge, interior humidification, inward vapor drive issues, and the effect of air barrier imperfections.
by Kohta Ueno
Finally Fossil-Fuel-Free: Air-to-Water Heat Pump & Ventilation Retrofit
Air-to-water heat pumps have generated a lot of excitement for their enormous retrofit potential. This case study details one home’s retrofit to an AWHP system, which was developed by hydronics experts to be simple and repeatable.
by Brian Just
To Electrify or Not to Electrify
Should we be trying to electrify everything? Is it practical for existing and new buildings with the technologies we have now? Two engineers with different takes on these questions will debate electrifying residential buildings.
by Nicole Ceci and 1 other
Zone Pressure Diagnostics: Precise Leak Detection and Measurement in Buildings
This course explains why you need Residential Energy Dynamics' Zone Pressure Diagnostics (ZPD) tool, how to use it, and much more.
by Rick Karg
Zero Energy Home Basics: Economics, Minimizing Energy Use, and Renewable Systems
Ann Edminster discusses Zero Energy Homes, economic considerations, minimizing building energy needs, occupant energy uses and renewable energy systems in this course.
by Ann Edminster
High Performance Building Assemblies
This lecture covers just how heat and moisture can move in building assemblies, how to manage both, and the tools that are available to evaluate or predict hygrothermal performance of building assemblies.
by Peter Yost
Integrating ASHRAE HVAC Standards
This free course is a recording of two webinars by Robert Bean on understanding and integrating ASHRAE standards on thermal comfort, energy efficiency and indoor air quality for HVAC and building design.
by Robert Bean
Extreme Makeover: The Plainfield NH Elementary School
This small New Hampshire town was faced with a host of issues with its 35,000 sf school. Key areas included IAQ problems, lack of temperature control, obsolete HVAC equipment, and high energy bills. A small group of volunteers proposed a radical solution.
by Marc Rosenbaum
Building Energy Analytics Case Study
In this lecture, Andy Shapiro will ask and answer questions relative to understanding how well a new, small, well insulated house is performing on energy use and temperature control...
by Andy Shapiro
Deep Energy Retrofit Case Study
In this 32-minute video, Marc Rosenbaum provides an overview of a residential deep energy retrofit project.
by Marc Rosenbaum
Scalable Multifamily Retrofits: Two Case Studies
The session will provide an introduction to standardized retrofits for multifamily housing, an overview of the best practices in Europe, and the practical implementation in the US market.
by Chris Benedict and 2 others
Multifamily Central Ventilation: A Tale of Two Cities
Central ventilation systems in multifamily buildings are a vital building system with significant implications for energy, sustainability and occupant health and safety. In this session, we compare and contrast the building stock in Boston and NYC
by Thomas Holmes and 2 others