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Free Webinar: Mechanical Rooms: Strategies for Electrification Retrofits in Homes, October 3, 9am-12pm PT
Event Description
For as long as we’ve built homes, we’ve been using some kind combustion appliance system to heat them. As a result, our buildings are designed and constructed to safely manage the operation of gas appliances. In this webinar, Dan Perunko of Balance Point Home Performance will look at mechanical rooms as we transition from gas appliances to electric appliances. There is an opportunity for contractors and designers to offer their clients additional efficiencies beyond those offered by the change to electric appliances. We will identify easily overlooked building enclosure and mechanical changes that can be incorporated into an electrification retrofit project. This three-hour webinar is based on completed projects and will have images of floor plans that illustrate the complexities of combustion appliance mechanical spaces and the opportunities available when they are electrified.
The objective of this course is that at the conclusion, participants will be able to:
- Functions and structures required for a combustion appliance mechanical room
- Functions and structures required for an electrical appliance mechanical room
- Benefits offered by repairing the building enclosure after gas appliances are removed
- Techniques for repairing air barrier and insulation systems
- Potential efficiencies gained by repositioning Mechanical equipment within the mechanical room
a. Duct system improvements
b. Plumbing system improvements
- Look at floor plan options for repositioning electrical equipment elsewhere in the house
a. Repurpose the old mechanical room
- Conclusion and questions from the participants
Dan Perunko is cofounder of Balance Point Home Performance Company. In 2006, along with Gavin Healy, Dan started a successful company providing full service home performance analysis, retrofits, consultations, and trainings. Dan works on new and existing construction designs and hands on installations of enclosures, mechanical, plumbing, and indoor air quality components based on tested performance outcomes. Dan especially enjoys improving existing homes to provide homeowners with levels of comfort and energy consumption that they have not believed possible. Dan is a professional trainer who designs and delivers full and multi day courses for California’s Utility Companies (energy training centers) and ACI national and regional conferences.
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