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Greening Homes… without leaving homeowners feeling Blue

Greening Homes… without leaving homeowners feeling Blue. Green Building Report Card. Student Carolina West. Grade Prerequisites A Site A

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Greening Homes… without leaving homeowners feeling Blue

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  1. GreeningHomes…without leaving homeownersfeeling Blue

  2. Green Building Report Card Student Carolina West Grade • Prerequisites A • Site A • Water A • Materials B • Indoor Air Quality F • Energy: Comfort Systems D • Energy: Building Envelope A • Energy: Appliances, Lighting, and RenewablesA

  3. Recent missteps in Greening:

  4. Case #1“Sick from mold” Issue: A young couple suffers from overpowering moldy odor inside 1-year old Energy Star home. Cause: Lack of control over humidity in rooms and in crawl space.

  5. Case #2“Mold Attack” Issue: A family is creeped-out from Mold growing on walls inside their 3-year old Green home. Cause: Lack of control over humidity in rooms and continuous fresh air venting in a damp forest.

  6. Case #3“Forecast Sunny…with a chance of Suffocation” Issue: A new, tight, Solar Energy Green home leaves its occupants feeling uncomfortable inside their home as they are surrounded by a stale, stuffy mass of air. Cause: Poor fresh air ventilation set-up.

  7. Case #4“The Poison House” Issue: A homeowner finds herself having to live in a tent outside due to severe respiratory irritation when she steps inside her newly-constructed Green Home. Cause: Chlorine off-gassing from unfortunate mix of: Foamed Cementitious Insulation Magnesium Oxide Board Outside humidity entering wall system Magnesium Chloride content No fresh air ventilation.

  8. Case #5“Makeover madness” Issue: A mother and her daughter suffer from respiratory irritationwhile they remain inside their Green remodeled home. Cause: Odors from a lack of control over humidity in the crawl space and from the use of high VOC construction materials compelling the owner to run an ozone generator non-stop.

  9. Case #6“To Air is Human” Issue: A woman cannot escape the relentless heat as she moves from room to room inside her 5-year old Green home. Cause: Cooling air was not set up to circulate from room-to-room .

  10. Fact ! ...not fiction.

  11. Lots of Green progress ! • Materials and construction • Local sourcing • Site protection and use • Energy use • Aesthetics • Water use

  12. What’s still missing? • Health and comfort focus: Cooling comforts Air filtration Natural and Manufactured odors • Air management focus: Air circulation Humidity control • Maintenance focus: Maintenance program Occupant instruction

  13. Allies not Aliens Building, HVAC, Health and Environmental pros

  14. For conversation pullingHealth, Energy, Green Building issues together Contact :Indoor Environment Connections12339 Carroll Avenue,Rockville, MD 20852(301) 230-9606 www.ieconnections.com

  15. Building Science & HVAC

  16. For conversation pullingHVAC, Energy, Green Building issues together Contact :Energy Vanguard, LLC (678) 662-4332 1924 Clairmont Rd, Suite 50, Decatur, GA  30033 www.energyvanguard.com

  17. For localconversation pullingHealth, HVAC, Energy, Green Building issues together Contact : Rick BaylessA Healthier Home330 Rambling Dr. Hendersonville, NC 28739(828) 243-5192 www.RickBaylessHealthyHome.com

  18. Rick Bayless 243-5192 A Healthier Home

  19. A Dichotomy ? X-BRAND X-BRAND RULES !

  20. GREEN HOME TOUR

  21. One Visitor Comment: “Sure are an awful lot of: • petroleum-based materials • materials obtained in ways that are anything but "green“ • massively energy-inefficient layouts and design • materials sourced from hundreds and thousands of miles away But I guess if you tack on a couple rain barrels and solar panels you can call anything green.”

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