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Between COVID, the coming winter, and wildfire smoke, there’s need for filtration as well as ventilation in buildings. Inexpensive, DIY solutions are available.

Three things to look for in Professional Development Training.

How to match your online continuing education/professional development to your learning style.

Here’s a quick summary of three key things you need to know about ventilation in schools.

Building science is the key to healthy indoor environments. The house is a dynamic system, the neutral pressure plane (NPP) is driven by stack effect and changes depending on wind and outside temperatures. This article challenges your understanding of the NPP with three scenarios.

What does an Energy Advisor do? Here’s what a day in the life of an Energy Advisor might look like.

An overview of four different approaches to online learning, from 'quick and dirty' to not quick and very detailed. Includes a graphic showing Blue House Energy's process for developing training.

A top level decision tree for standard energy upgrades, deep energy retrofits and Net Zero Energy renovations.

So it's #IWD2020. As usual, I am dreaming big, fighting hard and persisting.

Building science is the key to healthy indoor environments. The house is a dynamic system, the neutral pressure plane (NPP) is driven by stack effect and changes depending on wind and outside temperatures. This article explores why it’s important to understand the NPP, how it affects occupant health and safety, and what can be done to stabilize it.

This series of articles looks at the fundamentals of building science and how you apply them in diagnosing the conditions that are affecting the performance of a building. Building science is the key to healthy indoor environments. The house is a dynamic system, the neutral pressure plane (NPP) is driven by stack effect and changes depending on wind and outside temperatures. This article explores why it’s important to understand the NPP, how it affects occupant health and safety, and what can be done to stabilize it.

The need for more Energy Advisors is growing. Learn what they do and how to get certified from the building science experts at Blue House Energy.

Atlantic Canada home builders, designers, energy advisors, and other industry players: get your high-performance housing questions answered at LEEP forums in February 2020.