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Posted: August 30, 2017Categories: Air Leakage TestingRead more »
Published in TAB Journal Summer 2017 and written by Denny Whitzel, TBE, CxA Pacific Coast Air Balancing. View the original article here.
As required by Washington State Code, all commercial multi-unit residential structures are required to have air barrier testing performed to ensure they meet the state requirements for infiltration levels. During the construction process special procedures, materials and methods are utilized to ensure the airtight integrity of the inside and outside of the building are maintained. Yet even when the previous three are
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Posted: August 25, 2017Categories: Company NewsRead more »
Retrotec is excited to reveal that the deal between Retrotec Inc. and Wöhler Technik, a technology applications company, is finalized! The new company, “Wohler Retrotec, Inc.” continues to do business as “Retrotec.”
Wöhler is a well-respected German company specializing in measuring instruments, inspection systems, cleaning tools, and related heating, ventilation, and building applications.
Retrotec founder, Colin Genge, spent decades strengthening the blower door, duct testing, and clean agent enclosure integrity industries. With Retrotec experiencing unmatched and continued growth, Colin Genge’s decision to retire provided Retrotec with an opportunity to find a strategic partner to further expand into even wider-ranging markets. The decision to pair with Wöhler Technik came as an unmatched opportunity.
While the acquisition stands to provide future opportunities in related
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Posted: August 09, 2017Categories: Air Leakage TestingRead more »
Written by Stacie Bagnasco, July 26, 2017.
In California the California Energy Commission [CEC] aka Energy Standards, provide two basic methods for complying with low-rise residential energy budgets: the prescriptive approach and the performance approach. The mandatory measures must be installed with either of these approaches, but mandatory measures may be superseded by more stringent measures under either approach.
The prescriptive approach, composed of a climate zone dependent prescriptive package is less flexible but simpler than the performance approach. Each energy component of the proposed building must meet a prescribed minimum efficiency.
The performance approach is more complicated but offers considerable design flexibility. The performance approach requires an approved computer software program that models a proposed
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Posted: July 24, 2017Categories: rCloud NewsRead more »Our own Kirsten Richnavsky, a Retrotec Technical Sales Representative, was pleased to be interviewed at the NCBPA Conference in Raleigh, NC.In this interview, Kirsten highlights factors that make Retrotec the industry leader, including equipment ease-of-use, online training, and detailed information about Retrotec's rCloud testing app.Thank you NCBPA & RFF Marketing for the interview!
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Posted: May 23, 2017Categories: EnergyRead more »
Expect to see changes that will allow oil and gas companies to sell more product even in areas where renewables and conservation are cheaper without subsidies. Hiding the science of climate change will make it easier for America to continue to avoid a movement to 21st Century technology that will leave American behind the rest of the world competitively. Consider that Norway will ban new gas powered cars by 2025 and Germany makes houses that use 1/20th the energy of an American house.
America could fall well behind the rest of the world but there is at least on bright spot as Tesla just became America’s most valuable car company in a few years and will soon dominate solar collection with a
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Posted: May 11, 2017Read more »
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Posted: May 04, 2017Categories: EnergyRead more »
Renewables create almost as many jobs as fossil fuels that receive all the government attention. More astonishing is that energy efficiency produces more jobs that both but gets zero attention from politicians. The following article (originally posted here) outlines these details. Credit: Jim Barrett, Chief Economist.
Coal is big. Solar’s bigger. But energy efficiency is the biggest.
Blog | April 28, 2017 - 10:19 am
By Jim Barrett, Chief Economist
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