Session · Mechanicals and ventilation · Designers and consultants · Builders and trades

Multifamily Ventilation Duct Leakage: Targets, Strategies, and Lessons Learned

Kelly Fisher, Peel Passive House Consulting; Michael Schmidt, Steven Winter Associates · February 14, 2024 · PHN Presents

Focusing on multifamily buildings, this presentation uncovers the difficulties of ventilation duct leakage, defines the targets, and gives strategies for success from two of North America’s leading Passive House firms.

Key points

• The Passive House certification criteria, and the performance ventilation systems need to comply.
• Standard Passive House ventilation designs, layouts, and components, compared with field installations.
• Common problem areas in installing and running high-performance ventilation systems, with examples.
• How to design for the best ventilation performance, from lessons learned.

Learning objectives

• Describe the Passive House certification criteria and the actual performance necessary for ventilation systems to be within compliance.
• Analyze standard passive house ventilation system designs, layouts, and components about the performance and field installations.
• Demonstrate through examples common problem areas related to the implementation and operation of high-performance Passive House ventilation systems.
• Recommend ways to design for best ventilation performance based on lessons learned.

Topics: Quality assurance, Ventilation