Flexible Residential Test Facility: Impact of Infiltration and Ventilation on Measured Cooling Season Energy and Moisture Levels

Stacey Rothgeb; D. Parker; J. Cummings; R. Vieira; P. Fairey III; J. Sherwin; Charles Withers, Jr.; D. Hoak; E. Martin; Stacey Rothgeb

Flexible Residential Test Facility: Impact of Infiltration and Ventilation on Measured Cooling Season Energy and Moisture Levels

Stacey Rothgeb
, D. Parker
, J. Cummings
, R. Vieira
, P. Fairey III
, J. Sherwin
, Charles Withers, Jr.
, D. Hoak
, E. Martin
, Stacey Rothgeb (NREL Technical Monitor)

Building Technologies and Science Center

Building America Partnership for Improved Residential Construction

Research output: NLR › Subcontract Report

Abstract

Air infiltration and ventilation in residential buildings is a very large part of the heating loads, but empirical data regarding the impact on space cooling has been lacking. Moreover, there has been little data on how building tightness might relate to building interior moisture levels in homes in a hot and humid climate. To address this need, BA-PIRC has conducted research to assess the moisture and cooling load impacts of airtightness and mechanical ventilation in two identical laboratory homes in the hot-humid climate over the cooling season.

Original language	American English
Publisher	National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR)
Number of pages	53
State	Published - 2014

Bibliographical note

Work performed by BA-PIRC/Florida Solar Energy Center, Cocoa, Florida

NLR Publication Number

NREL/SR-5500-61012

Other Report Number

DOE/GO-102014-4344

Keywords

BA-PIRC
Building America
CO2 tracer
condensate measurement
infiltration
mechanical ventilation
moisture control
residential
residential buildings
simulated occupancy
space cooling energy

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Flexible Residential Test Facility: Impact of Infiltration and Ventilation on Measured Cooling Season Energy and Moisture Levels

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