U.S. Department of EnergyOffice of Scientific and Technical Information
Air Leakage and Air Transfer Between Garage and Living Space
Abstract
This research project focused on evaluation of air transfer between the garage and living space in a single-family detached home constructed by a production homebuilder in compliance with the 2009 International Residential Code and the 2009 International Energy Conservation Code. The project gathered important information about the performance of whole-building ventilation systems and garage ventilation systems as they relate to minimizing flow of contaminated air from garage to living space. A series of 25 multi-point fan pressurization tests and additional zone pressure diagnostic testing characterized the garage and house air leakage, the garage-to-house air leakage, and garage and house pressure relationships to each other and to outdoors using automated fan pressurization and pressure monitoring techniques. While the relative characteristics of this house may not represent the entire population of new construction configurations and air tightness levels (house and garage) throughout the country, the technical approach was conservative and should reasonably extend the usefulness of the results to a large spectrum of house configurations from this set of parametric tests in this one house. Based on the results of this testing, the two-step garage-to-house air leakage test protocol described above is recommended where whole-house exhaust ventilation is employed.
- Authors:
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- Building Science Corporation, Westford, MA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Building Science Corporation, Westford, MA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Building Technologies Office
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1220297
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/GO-102014-4489
6886
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- residential; Residential Buildings; BSC; Building America; indoor air quality; air leakage; garage air leakage; garage-to-house air leakage; garage testing; blower door testing; attached garage ventilation; whole house ventilation
Citation Formats
Rudd, Armin. Air Leakage and Air Transfer Between Garage and Living Space. United States: N. p., 2014.
Web. doi:10.2172/1220297.
Rudd, Armin. Air Leakage and Air Transfer Between Garage and Living Space. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1220297
Rudd, Armin. 2014.
"Air Leakage and Air Transfer Between Garage and Living Space". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1220297. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1220297.
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abstractNote = {This research project focused on evaluation of air transfer between the garage and living space in a single-family detached home constructed by a production homebuilder in compliance with the 2009 International Residential Code and the 2009 International Energy Conservation Code. The project gathered important information about the performance of whole-building ventilation systems and garage ventilation systems as they relate to minimizing flow of contaminated air from garage to living space. A series of 25 multi-point fan pressurization tests and additional zone pressure diagnostic testing characterized the garage and house air leakage, the garage-to-house air leakage, and garage and house pressure relationships to each other and to outdoors using automated fan pressurization and pressure monitoring techniques. While the relative characteristics of this house may not represent the entire population of new construction configurations and air tightness levels (house and garage) throughout the country, the technical approach was conservative and should reasonably extend the usefulness of the results to a large spectrum of house configurations from this set of parametric tests in this one house. Based on the results of this testing, the two-step garage-to-house air leakage test protocol described above is recommended where whole-house exhaust ventilation is employed.},
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year = {Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
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