1. GreeningHomes…
without leaving homeowners
feeling Blue

2. Green Building Report Card
Student Carolina West
Grade
• Prerequisites A
• Site A
• Water A
• Materials B
• Indoor Air Quality F
• Energy: Comfort Systems D
• Energy: Building Envelope A
• Energy: Appliances, Lighting, and RenewablesA

3. Recent missteps in Greening:

4. Case #1
“Sick from mold”
Issue:
A young couple suffers from
overpowering moldy odor
inside 1-year old Energy Star home.
Cause:
Lack of control over humidity in rooms and in
crawl space.

5. Case #2
“Mold Attack”
Issue:
A family is creeped-out from Mold growing on
walls inside their 3-year old Green home.
Cause:
Lack of control over humidity in rooms and
continuous fresh air venting in a damp forest.

6. Case #3
“Forecast Sunny…
with a chance of Suffocation”
Issue:
A new, tight, Solar Energy Green home leaves
its occupants feeling uncomfortable inside
their home as they are surrounded by
a stale, stuffy mass of air.
Cause:
Poor fresh air ventilation set-up.

7. Case #4
“The Poison House”
Issue:
A homeowner finds herself having to live in a tent outside
due to severe respiratory irritation when she steps inside
her newly-constructed Green Home.
Cause:
Chlorine off-gassing from unfortunate mix of:
Foamed Cementitious Insulation
Magnesium Oxide Board
Outside humidity entering wall system
Magnesium Chloride content
No fresh air ventilation.

8. Case #5
“Makeover madness”
Issue:
A mother and her daughter suffer from respiratory
irritationwhile they remain inside their Green
remodeled home.
Cause:
Odors from a lack of control over humidity in the
crawl space and from the use of high VOC
construction materials compelling the owner to
run an ozone generator non-stop.

9. Case #6
“To Air is Human”
Issue:
A woman cannot escape the relentless heat
as she moves from room to room inside her
5-year old Green home.
Cause:
Cooling air was not set up to circulate from
room-to-room .

10. Fact !
...not fiction.

11. Lots of Green progress !
• Materials and construction
• Local sourcing
• Site protection and use
• Energy use
• Aesthetics
• Water use

12. What’s still missing?
• Health and comfort focus:
Cooling comforts
Air filtration
Natural and Manufactured odors
• Air management focus:
Air circulation
Humidity control
• Maintenance focus:
Maintenance program
Occupant instruction

13. Building, HVAC, Health
and Environmental
pros
Allies not Aliens

15. For conversation pulling
Health, Energy, Green Building issues
together
Contact :
Indoor Environment Connections
12339 Carroll Avenue,Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 230-9606
www.ieconnections.com

16. Building Science
& HVAC

17. For conversation pulling
HVAC, Energy, Green Building issues
together
Contact :
Energy Vanguard, LLC
(678) 662-4332 1924 Clairmont Rd, Suite 50, Decatur,
GA 30033
www.energyvanguard.com

19. For localconversation pulling
Health, HVAC, Energy, Green Building
issues together
Contact :
Rick Bayless
A Healthier Home
330 Rambling Dr. Hendersonville, NC 28739
(828) 243-5192
www.RickBaylessHealthyHome.com

20. Rick Bayless
243-5192
A Healthier Home

21. A Dichotomy ?

22. GREEN HOME TOUR

23. One Visitor Comment:
“Sure are an awful lot of:
• petroleum-based materials
• materials obtained in ways that are anything but
"green“
• massively energy-inefficient layouts and design
• materials sourced from hundreds and thousands
of miles away
But I guess if you tack on a couple rain barrels and
solar panels you can call anything green.”