Event Description

Balanced Ventilation for Better Health, Comfort, and Electrification is a two part series that will help prepare designers, installers and commissioning agents to take advantage of balanced ventilation systems in high performance electrification projects. This series covers the health benefits of ventilation and filtration, as well as equipment types, installation strategies, ducting best practices, and ducting issues.

More buildings are being constructed with high-performance building envelopes. For these buildings, a well-designed and installed ventilation system is a must. Dan Perunko of Balance Point Home Performance delves into why ventilation and filtration are so important. In this series, you will look at indoor and outdoor air quality and discuss the effectiveness of ventilation and filtration at managing various pollutants. In addition to the large body of evidence we already had supporting the need for ventilation and filtration in residential buildings, the series will consider the current impacts of building electrification, the pandemic, and wildfires on our systems.

This four hour class is designed to help participants identify and understand critical issues relating to healthy buildings. The class will help participants improve their ability to discuss these issues with customers and lay the groundwork for the other course in the Balanced Ventilation series about the design and installation of balanced ventilation and filtration systems.

The objective of this course

• Summarize air quality conditions in typical California homes
• Describe the several sources of pollutants effecting typical California homes
• Identify characteristics of an effective ventilation and filtration system
• Discuss work scope details that are important for selling and installing an effective ventilation and filtration system
• Communicate the talking points for educating their customers about effective air quality systems

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