Building Performance Round Table

HVAC School - For Techs, By Techs

Bryan Orr

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Careers

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this live recording from the AHR Expo, Kaleb Saleeby, Nate Adams, Michael Housh, and Steve Rogers discuss building performance.

The building science world is an exciting place; we're all excited about improvements to reheat dehumidification, which is when we use waste heat to take care of humidity without cooling. As equipment becomes more efficient, we also look forward to tackling new challenges that make us think more broadly. New people are also stepping up, using new tools, accessing more knowledge, and doing better work.

Building performance is becoming more important in HVAC via HVAC 2.0, which focuses on design efficiency. However, the biggest challenge right now is making HVAC 2.0 sustainable and profitable. We must simplify and scale building performance; when we make it accessible, we can work it into the HVAC industry and do more thorough work.

One of the challenges to widespread adoption is the lack of experience with building performance. The average technician simply doesn't have the needed exposure to building science concepts and practices. Perhaps the best way to bring people into the building science side of the business is to work on the techs' own homes. We need to bring the personal part of building performance to the technicians and their families if we want to see widespread adoption of HVAC 2.0.

We also need to make building performance solutions accessible to the consumers. Although the solutions may be too expensive for many customers right now, the goal is to start holistic comfort conversations.

Kaleb, Nate, Michael, Steve, and Bryan also discuss:

Tapping into the engineering mindset
Economic sustainability
Psychrometric charts vs. app-based learning
Math vs. software
Working with techs and the CSRs
The Gulf of Disappointment
Contractor relationships
Economic and environmental impacts
Fossil fuels
Upgrading the electrical grid
Propane

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0:00.0	So this is one of many podcasts recorded live from AHR Expo 2020 here in Orlando.
0:09.9	My hometown, HR was nice enough to allow us to record and to set up some great equipment for us.
0:16.3	So big thanks to AHR for doing this.
0:18.4	It's been a great event.
0:20.1	Thank you to all of our sponsors, Field Piece, Carrier, Navac, Refrigeration Technologies,
0:25.9	and Speed Clean for making this podcast and all of our podcast possible.
0:30.4	But most of all, thank you to everybody who participated in these episodes and who came up and said so many nice things about what we're doing at HVAC school. Hope you enjoy. And now your host, the guy who checks the air filter of every single hotel room, right when he walks in, but still can't change his own filter when he's supposed to.
0:55.0	Brian Orr.
0:56.0	Hey, this is the HVAC School Podcast.
0:58.0	This episode of the HVAC School Podcast is once again something that I might have forgotten along the way as
1:04.5	well as something you might have forgotten to know in the first place and this conversation
1:09.5	is a group conversation with a whole bunch of the smartest
1:13.9	building performance building science folks
1:15.9	that I've had the opportunity to get to know.
1:18.2	In this group we have Caleb Salybee, Nate Adams, Michael Housh
1:21.8	and Steve Rogers from the Energy Conservatory.
1:24.7	They were all at the symposium event at Kailos and had a really great time talking to these
1:29.9	guys and so we just riff a little bit on building performance and building science.
1:34.0	Hope you enjoy.
1:35.0	We'll just go around the table.
1:38.0	We can start with you, Housh.
1:39.0	My name is Michael Housh from Cincinnati, Ohio, pretty active everywhere online.
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