4585 -- Observations on Changing Residential Design Conditions and Recommendations for Register Assessment for the High Performance Home PDF

There are a number of significant differences between the conditions for which registers have traditionally been designed and tested and the conditions in today's high performance house. This paper examines many of these differences through field evaluation studies and test chamber experiments. Finally, it proposes a new set of topics, the objective of which is to develop a set of register performance measures that are more appropriate to high performance residential applications.

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