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Home Energy magazine

Volume 16, No. 6
November/December 1999

Departments

Editorial
My Discouraging 
Visit to Costco

Letters

Field Notes
Taking the Leap from HVAC to Home Performance

Conservation Clips


Trends

UL Sets Standards for Indoor Air Quality

European Appliance Efficiency Revs Up

More Money
for Green Houses

Northeast Utility System Sees Marketing Benefits 
with Energy Star

Building a Boiler Side-Arm


On the cover:

Architect Don Bittorf of Edmonton, Alberta, designed this house with an exterior air/
thermal barrier method known as PERSIST to resolve concerns about high humidity from the home’s indoor swimming pool.
(See page 13.)

Photo courtesy of 
Chris Makepeace

Feature Articles

Wrap It Up: 
Building Houses with 
the Skin on the Outside

by Chris Makepeace

Builders have used exterior air/thermal barriers to control moisture in commercial construction for many years. Why not build houses this way?

Money Down the Drain: Controlling Hot Water Recirculation Costs

by Fredric S. Goldner

The energy required to heat domestic hot water in multifamily buildings can be cut by 11% just by installing a simple, off-the-shelf device: the aquastat.

Calculating Whole-Wall R-Values
on the Net

by Jeffrey Christian and Jan Kosny

A Web-based tool makes it easy to compare the thermal performance of alternative wall systems.

Unventing Attics in Cold Climates

by Joe Lstiburek

You already know that unvented attics can work well in hot climates. Attics can be built without vents in cold climates, too.

Fuel Use in Multifamily Buildings

by F.L. Andrew Padian

How much fuel does it take to heat the average low-income multifamily building in New York City?
 


Health House Cold Climate
Standards Keep Occupants
Warm and Dry

by Christina B. Farnsworth

The Health House standards developed by the American Lung Association have recently been put to the test in constructing 27 affordable new Midwestern homes.
 

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