Weatherization Analysis for Existing Homes – brought to you by ASME
Workshop 19
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Friday, May 21
1:30pm to 5:30pm

Registration Price: $145 on or before April 1, $155 after April 1, $165 on-site
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Presented by: Moncef Krarti, Professor, UCLA Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Building systems Program, University of Colorado.
Description: The energy efficiency and thermal comfort for existing homes can be improved through simple and proven retrofit measures. In this workshop you will learn how to quickly assess the energy efficiency of existing homes and how to screen homes suitable for weatherization retrofits. Moreover, you will learn about monitoring and verification procedures to measure the actual impact of weatherization programs on the energy performance of existing homes. You will also learn about simple analysis methods and testing procedures suitable for existing buildings.
Materials to be provided to attendees include a textbook on energy auditing written by Moncef Krarti.
Who should attend? Architects, Builders, Energy Consultants, Homeowners, Educators, Students

4 AIA CEU's - Health & Welfare and Sustainability - available for this session

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PURPOSE OF THE WORKSHOP
This course will describe easy methods of screening existing homes for energy efficiency and weatherization programs using utility data. Moreover, attendees will learn systematic yet flexible approaches for auditing residential buildings in order to improve their energy efficiency and thermal comfort. Focus areas for energy auditing include building envelope and HVAC systems.
Moreover, the course will expose attendees to sound economic analysis to assess the cost effectiveness of energy efficiency measures as well as state-of-the-art calculations methods and simulation tools for energy efficiency analysis of existing buildings.

CONTENT OF THE WORKSHOP
The course will cover the following topics:

  • General procedures for energy management are presented including walk-through, detailed energy audit, energy commissioning, and building energy rating.
  • Presentation of screening methods and graphical methods to determine the overall building load coefficient from utility data.
  • Discussion of in-situ tests used to determine the energy performance of building envelope for residential buildings.
  • Energy efficiency measures and advanced energy management techniques to reduce the energy use of homes.
  • Case studies that outline monitoring and verification approaches to measure the real impact of weatherization programs on retrofitted homes.

PRESENTERS’ CURRENT POSITIONS AND EXPERTISE
Moncef Krarti, PhD, PE, LEED®AP, is Professor at the Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering Department in the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the director of the Building Systems Program at the University of Colorado. He is well known internationally for his work on energy efficient and sustainable buildings. He has conducted over one thousand of building energy retrofit projects throughout the world. He is also the author of over 180 technical articles on building energy efficiency and renewable technologies including a textbook on energy auditing: “Energy Audit of Building Systems”.