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Jason Taylor
Proposer First Name
Jason
Proposer Email
jason.taylor727@gmail.com
Proposer Last Name
Taylor
Proposer Phone
(617) 470-6940
Proposer Job Title
Air Barrier Consultant, Teacher
Proposer Additional Info
I've worked on buildings that reached the Passive House standard, I've done townhouse flat roof attics, deep energy retrofits, 17th century historic buildings, slow-rise foam in brick apartment buildings,worked with Aerobarrier, trouble-shot badly-sealed homes, churches, temples, and gurdwaras, and municipal buildings. And I've taught 100s of crew chiefs in the MassSAVE program for over 10 years at the Green Jobs Academy and written the best air-sealing curriculum in the Northeast. Blower-door-guided air-sealing should be as common as kitchen remodeling jobs or we aren't likely to succeed in meeting our climate change goals.
Proposed Session Description
Air Barrier Checking (ABC) is simple to do with a blower door. It teaches people how to become better air-sealers. It can be the final boost of cfm-reduction to get to the Passive House standard. It can be used to keep out rodents. It can diagnose why buildings are humid in the summer and drafty in the winter. Air-sealing retrofits has been proven to reduce heating bills by 10%. See some slides. Hear some stories of the many successes that good old-fashioned blower-door-guided air-sealing can bring. Warning: not for the claustrophobic.
Why is this session important?
The blower door should be used more than ever to perfect air barriers and yet it is often a skipped step in both new construction and retrofits. If we want to get to net zero, we cannot afford to skip that 10% savings. If we want to universally use heat pumps (which sometime struggle to meet the demand of cold days), we cannot afford to have leaky air barriers. Now more than ever, we need air barrier checking.
Learning Objectives
Discover the many problems blower-door-guided air-sealing can solve
Discover when the air barrier design is too over-the-top and thus more expensive than necessary since checking it is less expensive than adding more and more air barrier layers
Use this technique to find out surprises ie. the imperfection of air barriers around window tapes
Learn that there is a simple way to reduce the ACH50 to reach necessary goals
Has this session been presented before?
No

NYC 2021 Areas of Focus

Target Audiences Level of Expertise
Level 1 - No prior knowledge needed.
Session Format
Interview or structured conversation among panelists
Debate between opposing viewpoints

Strongest Content Connection - NYC 2021

Reviewer 1
Bayer, Sara
Proposal #
152
Committee Decision
Rejected

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