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Neutral Pressure Plane: 3 Challenges

Shawna HendersonJune 11, 2020

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.

Four Approaches to Online Training

Shawna HendersonMay 15, 2020

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.

What Everybody Needs to Know About Building Science: Neutral Pressure Plane

Shawna HendersonMarch 05, 2020

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.

What Everybody Needs to Know About Building Science: Part 1

Shawna HendersonMarch 02, 2020

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.

LEEP Technical Forums: Step 2 on the way to Better Houses

Shawna HendersonJanuary 23, 2020

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

LEEP: 4 Steps to Better High Performance Housing

Shawna HendersonJanuary 09, 2020

Atlantic Canada home builders, designers, energy advisors, and other industry players can take advantage of a nationally supported process and a new costing tool to delivery high performance housing.

5 Rules for Comfortable & Healthy Homes

Shawna HendersonDecember 12, 2019

There are some myths about tight building envelopes and healthy indoor environments that keep popping up. One of the big ones: houses need to breathe. Guess what? They don’t. Learn 5 rules that debunk this myth.

Retrofit Canada! Before it's too late!

R&G Strategic Inc.November 04, 2019

It's part of a great series put on by Passive Buildings Canada called 'Boots on the Ground'. This video is from August 2019, featuring one of our fave building science geniuses, Peter Amerongen.

Blue House Energy Provides Energy Advisor Exam Questions and Foundation Level Prep Backgrounder

Shawna HendersonAugust 07, 20182 comments

Blue House Energy Advisor Exam Prep offers a comprehensive suite of resources designed to help you excel in the Energy Advisor exam. Our practice exams simulate the actual exam experience, so you can identify your strengths and weaknesses, enabling you to focus your study efforts where they are needed most.