Articles

  • TEUI S.1 Reference Standards

    TEUI S.1 Reference Standards

    If you’re not sure what TEUI3 is, Take me to the Index of Articles! TEUI3 provides 15 different preset Reference Standards, 2 are from SB12 of the OBC prescriptive path tables, one is from SB10, 6 more are from NBC/NECB, one is from Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) and the rest are from PHI or… Read more

  • TEUI B.1 Major Occupancy

    TEUI B.1 Major Occupancy

    If you’re not sure what TEUI3 is, Take me to the Index of Articles! Of the 50+ user-inputs in the TEUI3 calculator, B.1 Major Occupancy mirrors the Occupancy types as set out in both the National and Provincial Building Codes of Canada. When a Major Occupancy is selected, a number of variables come into play.… Read more

  • TEUI B.3 Conditioned Area

    TEUI B.3 Conditioned Area

    If you’re not sure what TEUI3 is, Take me to the Index of Articles! With the pending launch of the OAA’s TEUI v.3 Calculator, we’ve decided to develop a course of lessons in use of the tool, and what assumptions and references have gone into its development. With about 50 user inputs, we figured we’d… Read more

  • TEUI G.2 Solar Gains (and Defaults)

    TEUI G.2 Solar Gains (and Defaults)

    If you had a million years on this Earth, you might find time to read every possible research paper on energy modelling and come up with a pretty good understanding of window and door behaviour. But having spent nearly 30 years in this field, nothing has gotten any simpler. The closer you look, the more… Read more

  • Hybrid Heating

    Hybrid Heating

    We were initially under the assumption that we had to make an all-or-nothing choice: basically a) go 100% electric to get to zero carbon, or b) replace a gas furnace with a new gas furnace and lock in to a carbon-emitting heating system for the next 20 years – the estimated life of the system.… Read more

  • Mid-Century Matters

    Mid-Century Matters

    Mid-Century Modern design has always appealed to me, the low pitch, butterfly roofs, big beams that shoot through floor-to-ceiling glass, consistent ceiling to soffit transitions, natural materials, quirky cantilevers, open concept Kitchen-Living-Dining areas, what’s not to love? For houses that were designed in this style from the 1940’s through to the 1970’s, the ‘Atomic Ranch’… Read more