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#181 - Bill Spohn - Indoor Air Quality and Net Zero Custom Build

5/6/2022

 
Episode #181
​Bill Spohn
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Bill Spohn is President and owner of TruTechTools.com, an award-winning reseller of tools and test instruments. He holds a BS & MS in Mechanical Engineering and is a Registered Professional Engineer (PE) in Pennsylvania. Over the last 30 years, Bill has built his career on creating, designing, and marketing a wide array of test and measurement products that work for technicians in the field including 10 years each at Bacharach and Testo. Bill is all about Science – Comfort, health and energy efficiency. He has worked on BPI, RESNET, GAMA, AHRI, OMA, RSES, NATE, and ACCA Technical Committees, and holds four US patents in instrumentation design. He regularly consults, teaches and writes on product applications in HVACR, building science, healthy homes, Indoor Air Quality, and weatherization. Bill sits on the boards of the Building Performance Association (BPA), the Green Home Institute (GHI) and Solar United Neighbors of Pennsylvania (SUN-PA) He and his wife have built and live in a modular, high-performance, “Net-Zero” home near Pittsburgh, PA. Keep tabs on the details at www.SpohnHome.com


For more from Bill: 
 Tour Bill Spohn's New Modular Net Zero Home - YouTube
 www.TruTechTools.com​

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2:00 introduction Bill  
3:10 Trutech tools start up - hvac, building performance tools
4:30 types of tools for HVAC   - if you’re not testing you’re just guessing 
6:35 duct leak testing - standard test, bluetooth testing, higher end diagnostic tools
9:00 Indoor air quality -  what you can and should measure, what can you do, ventilation, filtration and humidity control solutions 
16:10 Net Zero Home
18:30 cost to go passive, phpp model completed 
19:15  US tax credit, co op program deal on solar
20:20 modular design  - eco craft homes
22:55 custom design, factory and site  constraints 
23:45 blower door test,  thermal imaging



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