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Residential Energy Auditing and ImprovementThis is a single license Digital eBook PDF File that is downloadable, and password protected eBook Description This book is for energy auditors or retrofitters, whether they work in the weatherization program or in the private arena, and is intended to help them prepare for several certifications. These include programs with BPI, RESNET HERS, US DOE and NREL. The material in this book contains industry procedures and techniques and is intended to be
This is a single license Digital eBook PDF File that is downloadable, and password protected
eBook Description
This book is for energy auditors or retrofitters, whether they work in the weatherization program or in the private arena, and is intended to help them prepare for several certifications. These include programs with BPI, RESNET-HERS, US DOE and NREL. The material in this book contains industry procedures and techniques and is intended to be an educational resource. Topics covered include the house as a system, the auditor’s tools, weatherization, sealants, insulation and barriers, retrofitting, heating and cooling, baseload, and new construction. A number of additional appendices are included to provide the reader with valuable information in the performance of a residential energy audit.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- History of Energy Auditing and Retrofitting
- Mission of WAP
- Chapter 2 Eergy Basics
- The Concept of Energy
- The Thermodynamic Laws
- Relationship of Energy to Heat
- Temperature, Work, and Power
- Phase Change
- Heat Transfer
- Other Pertinent Energy Basics
- Heating System/Furnace Basics
- Cooling Units—The Air-Conditioning Process
- Insulation and R-Values
- Chapter 3 House As a System
- Whole House
- Components of the House
- The Effect of Air on the House System
- The Effect of Water on the House System
- Comfort and Climate
- Pollutants
- Whole House Fans
- Comfort, Safety, and Efficiency
- Chapter 4 The Auditor’s Tools and How to Use Them
- Typical Tools
- Blower Doors
- Minimum Ventilation Requirement (MVR)
- Home Setup and Preparation for Blower Door
- Measuring Exhaust Fan Flow
- Duct Tests
- Zone Pressure Diagnostics
- Advanced ZPD Tests that Estimate Leakage Flow and Hole Size
- Levels of and Standards for ZPD Testing
- Infrared Thermometers and Thermography
- Chapter 5 Weatherization Requirements and Similarities in the Private Arena
- Deferral of Services
- Acceptable Measures
- Savings to Investment Ratio in the Weatherization Program
- Payback of Retrofits in the Private Arena
- Authorization for Weatherization Work
- Repairs
- Health and Safety
- Priorities in the Private Arena
- Accepted Home Energy Designations
- Chapter 6 Sealants, Insulation and Barriers and How to Install Them
- Retrofit Materials
- Insulation
- Factors Affecting Thermal Performance of Insulation
- Radon
- Vapor Barriers
- Chapter 7 Auditing, Planning, and Retrofitting
- Work Flow Sequence
- Auditing and Retrofitting
- Exterior
- Evaluating Interiors
- Space Heaters
- Reducing Moisture in the Home
- Air Sealing
- Walls
- Attics
- Special Situations in Attics and Basements
- Attic Ventilation
- Enclosed and Covered Ceilings Below Roofs
- Roofs
- Floors
- Windows and Doors
- Furnace Ducts
- Other Special Issues in Air Leakage
- Basement and Crawl Spaces
- Special Topics
- Plumbing and Mechanical
- Strategies for Different Types of Homes
- Chapter 8 Work Order Development by the Auditor
- First Step in Work Order Development
- Second Step in Work Order Development
- Third Step in Work Order Development
- Chapter 9 Heating and Cooling
- Various Types of Heating Units
- Items Common to Both Oil- and Gas-Fired Units
- Distribution System and Controls
- Other Heating Units
- Steam Heating Systems
- Electric Resistance Heating
- Combustion Appliances—Background
- Inspection and Testing
- Conducting Worst-case Testing
- Unvented Appliances
- Testing Efficiency of Combustion Appliances
- Possible Repairs
- Cooling Measures
- Heat Pumps
- Evaporative Cooling or “Swamp” Cooler Systems
- Unit (Window) Air Conditioners
- Heat Gain in the Summer
- Sizing Air Conditioners
- Air Conditioner Efficiency Ratings
- Moisture Removal Capacity
- Heat Pump Efficiency Ratings
- Weatherization Recommendations
- Applying Shading
- Cooling System Cleaning
- Renewable Energy
- Chapter 10 Baseload and How to Improve It
- Modifications to Improve Baseload Measures
- Finding the Baseload
- Energy Usage Level of Appliances
- Refrigerators
- Dryer Vents
- Water Heating
- Lighting
- Other Baseload Issues
- Water Savings
- Chapter 11 New Construction Energy Evaluations
- Code
- RESNET Ratings
- Measuring and Sketching Building Dimensions
- Reading Building Plans
- Ethics and Disclosure
- Real Estate Financing
- Identification and Documentation of Features of the Rated Home
- Quality Assurance
- Cooling and Heating Design Tradeoffs
- Reference Home
- Projected and Confirmed Ratings
- Energy Code Compliance
- The Energy Star Program of the EPA
- Determining Building Orientation
- Passive House Program
- Chapter 12 Building Professional Training and Certification
- The Association of Energy Engineers
- AEE Certification
- Continuing Education Programs
- Appendix A Weatherization Standards
- Appendix B Math Basics
- Appendix C Conversion Tables/Charts
- Appendix D Ventilation Calculations
- Appendix E Using a Psychrometric Chart
- Appendix F Special Weatherization Calculations
- Appendix G R-Values and Benefits in Reality
- Intrusion and Wind Washing
- The Effect of Framing on R-Value
- The Effect of Windows and Doors
- Appendix H Insulation Versus Air Sealing
- Calculating Envelope Energy Loss
- Effects of a 7% Void in Insulation
- Appendix I Estimating Insulation Requirements
- In Attics
- In Walls
- Appendix J DOE Major U.S. Climate Zones and Climate Data for Select Cities
- Appendix K Meter Reading
- Appendix L Refrigerant Charge Testing
- Appendix M Certifications in the Home Energy Arena
- BPI, RESNET, and DOE/NREL
- Certifications (difficulty of achieving)
- Appendix N Energy Efficiency in ACs and Heat Pumps
- Appendix O Multi-point Blower Door Pressure Testing
- Appendix P Utility Bill Interpretation
- Appendix Q PHB Passive House
- Appendix R Zone Pressure Diagnostic (ZPD) Calculations
- Open-a-Door Tests
- Open-a-Door Chart
- Open-a-Hatch or Add-a-Hole Test
- Appendix S Safety Items on Combustion Appliances
- Glossary
- Index
Authors:
Stan Harbuck and Donna Harbuck
e-ISBN: 9788770223164
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Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2026
★★★★★ 5
A Foundling's Felicity
This book or novel or whatever you may deem fit to call it has so many points in its favour that it's difficult to know where to begin. I think a rundown of a few of the myriad of characters that delight me personally might do for starters:
Tom Jones - A young fellow with many "imperfections" if so they may be called, but a robust fellow with a "good heart." Prudence and what is commonly called virtue are not his strong suit - But may I remind the reader that virtue comes from the Latin word for "manliness"- Tom is certainly possessed of the word's etymological origins, if not of its modern usage (particularly in amorous matters)--And a good thing too, or we should have no story here to delight us!
Squire Western- Another rambunctious character, who, for me, typifies all that is Eighteenth Century England. Every time he appeared in this book, whether it was to comment on wenching, wine, or riding to hounds a smirk would immediately cross my face followed invariably by chuckling by the end of the chapter.
Henry Fielding - The author plays as much a part of the book as any of the characters with many prologues and prefaces and etc. For these, and for much of the rest of the book, I might add, the reader who has not had four years of Latin inculcated into him at an English boarding school would do well to buy the Oxford edition, which fully explains all the learned quotes - Also, as one who was thus inculcated but is inclined to laziness, the Oxford edition's notes prove extremely helpful also. Fielding also gives us a lively picture of the literary life of his time, which the Oxford footnotes do a deft job of explaining- In short, buy the Oxford edition.
This review can not be comprehensive. There are simply too many characters to even make a go at encompassing them all. I'm merely describing some of the, to me, more delightful ones.
The book as a whole is simply a joy to read, in its comic descriptions of all who will deign to admit that they are human, and of some priggish sorts who will not so deign. I can put it no better than Fielding Himself at the beginning of Book XV:
"There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that is not true."
In short, this is a delightful ramble of a book which, while entertaining the reader not too attached to Sunday School, sheds light on how unvirtuous the virtuous can be, and how kind and good-natured the roguish can be as well as giving us as good a history lesson on the state of affairs in Eighteenth century England (with attention given to the Jacobite Rebellion etc.) as many a "proper" history does.
Who, I ask myself, would not delight in this book? ---Well...for the priggish, there's always Jane Austen.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2007
★★★★★ 4
The Sidekick in Early-Modern Literature.
Tom Jones is probably the most influential novel in English history, pioneering elements like complex characterization, social criticism and authorial interjection. But you already knew that.
What you want to know is, is this a good book for us in the 21st century. And here, it's not so clear. The dialogue is pretty brisk, and some of the exchanges (the stereotypical Whig Mrs. Western arguing with her Jacobite brother is a particular treat) are actually funny. The latter part of the novel evolves into a farce, with a dozen characters engaged in scheming against one another, while Tom and Sophia helplessly go along. Farce works better in drama, where it has a faster pace, but it's always a welcome mode of comedy. You don't see enough farces.
Some of the characters are evocative (why do I picture Blifil as looking like Ted Cruz?) but some are not: Dowling is just a lawyer, and Mrs. Miller is a good woman, like thousands who have come since, and that's all there is to it. It's not as if every character needs to, or can, be a fully realized person, but the parts of the novel spent with these human plot devices do feel mechanical.
But Mr. Partridge, Tom's traveling companion, is in a different category altogether, and he just poisons the parts of the novel that he features in (chiefly the middle third). Eighteenth Century literature has a depressing reliance on goofy loose-lipped sidekicks: Mr. Partridge, Hugh Strap, Humphrey Clinker, Andrew Fairservice, Friday. Sometimes they're servants, but sometimes they're just stupid friends.
Part of this must be practical: It's difficult to follow a wandering hero (and why are the heroes of these novels always wandering? But that's a different question altogether) without giving him a friend to talk to. Maybe early novelists had a hard time sketching characters who didn't have a way to discuss the ongoing action.
But mostly, I think this is the bad influence of Don Quixote, which was becoming increasingly popular in England during this period. Sancho Panza is OK, and he's certainly the funniest element of that leaden tome. But Mr. Partridge *is* Sancho Panza, cowardice, superstition and all, and one Sancho Panza was more than enough. You know? There's a limited number of things that a silly, selfless, lazy pal can do, and it's hard to read about the same old doofus, yet again.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2016
★★★★★ 5
Delightful and entertaining
Format: Kindle
314. The History of Tom Jones: a foundling by Henry Fielding (Novel-Audible/E Book-Fiction) 5* I read along with the Audible of the novel which I found a highly delightful and entertaining experience.
The narrator, Bill Homewood, who performed the audio version of the work was excellent doing the various characters as well as the invisible narrator (author) of the story. The Synopsis is as follows:
A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squire—though he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins. A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth-century life, spiced with danger and intrigue, bawdy exuberance and good-natured authorial interjections, Tom Jones is one of the greatest and most ambitious comic novels in English literature.
It is rather brilliant, and there is no lack of shenanigans as we follow Jones through his history and the reader never knows when and where the author will abruptly go off on a tangent, told in a most eloquent manner, end with a flourish and no doubt tossed his quill down and took a bow. I am either taken in by some farce or thoroughly enchanted by this author. As Fielding is rather the loquacious writer this read comes in Audible time at almost 38 hours or roughly 1,000 pages but worth every minute spent on it.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2017
★★★★★ 5
An epic nearly 300 years old
Tom Jones is the comical history of a young man who was adopted into a rich family and faces a brother who is against him all while they grow into maturity. It’s kind of like the first part of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure except with Jonathan and Dio being reversed and with no vampires, but there is a moment where someone gets really scared while watching the ghost in hamlet so there’s at least some notion of the supernatural. Getting into it though, it’s an easy read despite it’s length encompassing 18 books, it’s honestly fascinating that it was able to be written so cleanly considering how many gaps there must of been between these books being written, it reads to us as a consistent narrative, but to imagine the wait and changing times that must have occurred during the duration to the story is really interesting to consider. The role and function of the narrator is probably the only real glimpse of this in narrative as he’s really just talking to us in the first chapter of every book, but the narrator being so clever and charming makes the only thing of interest be him and the relationship we form to him. It’s an incredible experience that I can recommend the entire story for alone. Getting to know the narrator is like talking to an old, reliable friend and it’s worth reading into nearly 300 years on.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2021