This course covers the fundamentals of residential heat loss and heat gain calculations and takes the nationally recognized residential load calculation standard and breaks it down in a way that's easy to understand and apply. This program is designed for the HVAC professional who will be using a computer-based program to calculate the heat loss and/or heat gain for residential buildings. This program gives the user all the information necessary to intelligently use a computer-based system. If you are populating fields in your software and you're not 100% sure what you're populating, this is the class for you.
Topics covered include:
- Indoor Design Temperatures
- Outdoor Design Temperatures
- Heat transfer
- How To Perform a Proper Survey
- Building Components
- Insulation
- Infiltration
- Ventilation
- Fenestrations
- Adequate Exposure Diversity
- Opaque Surfaces
- Non-Opaque Surfaces
- Duct Systems