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A Brief Note on Airtightness in Canadian Codes
On teaching a course for Passive House Canada for Building Officials last week and today, I was re-introduced to the numerous disparate adoptions of the NECB and NBC model National Codes by the provinces. I have never yet in my career (30yrs) seen such broad disparity. Ontario, my jurisdiction, is clinging hard to the actually… Read more
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TEUI G.4.1 Net Usable Gains
First of all, if you’re not sure what TEUI3 is, Take me to the Index of Articles! If there is one, single thing that differentiates Passive House Energy Modelling from most other methods, including Hourly, Dynamic modellers, it is probably what is called the Net Usable Gains Calculation. Just semantically, think of a building as… Read more
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TEUI L.2 Heating and Cooling Degree Days
If you’re not sure what OBJECTIVE or TEUI3 is, Take me to the Index of Articles! Heating and Cooling Days (HDD and CDD, respectively) are an effective shorthand for defining climate-related impacts on heating and cooling loads of buildings. The idea is simple enough, but the units – a mashup of time and temperature –… Read more
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TEUI T.3 Target vs. Actual
First of all, if you’re not sure what TEUI3 is, Take me to the Index of Articles! Architects imagine buildings in great detail before they exist. They establish budgets for construction costs, and their contracts will often hold them to delivering projects within a certain percentage of these targets. The buildings are expected to perform… Read more
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TEUI D.1 Reporting Period and Service Life
If you’re not sure what TEUI3 is, Take me to the Index of Articles! TEUI3 provides a Drop-Down menu to select a year range from 2015 to 2041. The purpose of this is to establish in what year annual emissions are to be calculated for, and this can function for either the ‘Utility Bill‘ method… Read more
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TEUI S.3 Carbon Benchmarking Standard
If you’re not sure what TEUI3 is, Take me to the Index of Articles! TEUI3 refers to Carbon Benchmarking Standards in a few different ways. The first way is for Standards Compliance and guidance. You can select from the following 6 options in the S.3 Drop Down: Why would the Building Code reference for Denmark… Read more