CH-89-07-3 -- Assessing in Situ Performance of Advanced Residential Heat Recovery Ventilator Systems: A Case Study of Monitoring Protocol PDF

A federal regional power administration (BPA) has sponsored the Residential Construction Demonstration Project to demonstrate and evaluate energy-conserving innovations in energy-efficient new houses. Incremental energy measure cost and thermal performance of 165 houses have been monitored. This paper is a case study of the planning process and accomplishment of field monitoring in a subsample of 12 occupied houses equipped with automatic data loggers to record heat recovery ventilator performance and other information in real time.

Project organization was necessarily complex and it invited problems. However, some very beneficial steps were taken during project planning and execution. Inevitabl y, certain problems occurred. Fortunately, the worst potential consequences were averted by foresight and flexible planning during the design and data acquisition phases of the project.