{"id":31282,"key":"Green_Building/Retrofits_and_Energy_Efficiency","title":"Green Building/Retrofits and Energy Efficiency","latest":{"id":1261620,"timestamp":"2026-08-18T15:01:08Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"{{Green Building navigation}}\n\n== Objectives ==\n\nBy the end of the {{SUBPAGENAME}} module, students will understand:\n\n# Residential energy uses and loss\n# Assessment procedure, observations, techniques and identifying goals\n# Client interviews, communication and observational inspections\n# The house as a system – interactive effects\n# The what, why, and how much of diagnostic testing equipment\n\n== Goals ==\n\n[[File:Cfl.jpg|thumb]]\n\nThe following are some of the main goals for the {{SUBPAGENAME}} module.\n\n=== Concepts ===\n\nBy the end of the {{SUBPAGENAME}} module, students will understand the following concepts (among others):\n\n* Lighting Efficiency -> Safety\n* FUE and EF\n* Combustion Byproducts\n* Combustion Safety\n* Heat Transfer\n* Heat loss\n* Infiltration\n* Diagnostic Testing\n\n=== Vocabulary and units ===\n\nBy the end of the {{SUBPAGENAME}} module, students will be able to confidently use the following vocabulary and/or units (among others):\n\n* BAS (Building Airflow Standard), combustion, Appliance Zone, Building Envelope, R-Value, Airchange per hour, EF, Efficacy, Infrared thermography, R-Value\n* CFM, CFM30, pascal, F, C, K, ACH, and Lumens\n\n=== Calculations ===\n\nBy the end of the {{SUBPAGENAME}} module, students will be able to do the following calculations (among others):\n\n* Light Exchange Saving\n* Flow rate conversions, such as Cups/sec to Gal/Min\n* CFM to ACH\n\n=== How to ===\n\nBy the end of the {{SUBPAGENAME}} module, students will be comfortable doing the following (among others):\n\n* Identify, Quantify and Report Losses\n* Inspection, Observational, Assessment, Client interview, Testing equipment, Write and present the report\n\n== Field trips ==\n\nBy the end of the {{SUBPAGENAME}} module, students will be have gone on the following field trips (possibly among others):\n\n* Job site\n\n{{Page data}}\n\n[[Category:Energy efficiency]]"}