Using Zone Pressure Diagnostics for House Leakage Analysis

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Using Zone Pressure Diagnostics for House Leakage Analysis

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How much leakage is through the attic, the basement, the attached garage? The only method for answering these questions is Zone Pressure Diagnostic (ZPD). This webinar addresses the ZPD basics to the advanced features. Learn about non-modifiable and modifiable zone analysis, the use of your digital manometer for ZPD testing, and the meaning of your results. The accurate and cutting-edge free Residential Energy Dynamics (RED) ZPD tool will be used for examples.

In this session we will:

• List the tools needed to perform ZPD
• Explain how to conduct a modifiable ZPD test to an attic, attached garage, or basement
• Discuss the results of modifiable zone analysis, including flow at CFM50 and area of leakage in each pressure boundary

Taught by Rick Karg

Rick Karg is President at Residential Energy Dynamics (or RED). He received his M.A. in economics from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1972. He taught economics at New Hampshire College and spent ten years as a building contractor before beginning his long career in the residential energy field.

He has worked with the DOE low-income weatherization program on national and state levels, is a frequent presenter at national energy conferences, has worked with gas and electric utilities, writes curricula, standards, and codes. Rick has been on the ASHRAE 62.2 committee since 2007, and serves as an editorial adviser for Home Energy magazine. He has been developing and marketing software for residential energy analysts since 1995.

He received the 2015 Phillip C. Hastings award from Efficiency Maine for "his outstanding leadership in the field of building science and energy efficiency". In 2016 he was inducted into the Building Performance Institute (BPI) Hall of Fame.