Category: Physics
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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TEDI and Ventilation, the tail that wags the dog
I will keep this post as short as possible because it is complex, and because it is complex I’ve made a calculator. Without discussing the dynamic interplay of 8 key variables pertaining to TEDI and Ventilation, it is impossible to separate facts from opinions. Here’s how I see it: An idling car or truck with…