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You stand in the mechanical room of a building you tuned three years ago. The equipment hums — fans, pumps, dampers — but the data tells a different s...
You commission a passive builded, tune it to perfection. The energy models sing. The blower door check passes. Everyone shakes hands. Five years later...
You have just wrapped a blower door check. The number is decent — 0.6 ACH50 — but the summer simulation showed overheating in the south bedrooms. The ...
Imagine you're tuning a passive builded in 2023. You pick a ventila rate, a set of temperature setpoint, and a shading schedule. It all seems reasonab...
You spend months commissioning a passive building. The blower door test passes. That is the catch. The energy model predicts net-zero. Then, two years...