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Check Out Our New Tool Library Video Tutorials – on the SBC YouTube Channel!

June 22, 2021 By SBC staff

With support from Puget Sound Energy, Seattle City Light, and Washington State Department of Commerce, the Smart Buildings Center (SBC) has developed a new video training series demonstrating practical applications of some of the tools available in SBC’s Tool Lending Library for providing healthier air while maintaining energy-efficiency. These topics are especially relevant to occupying buildings during and post-pandemic. Videos in the series include:

  • Healthier Air in Buildings: Tools and Strategies
    This video gives an overview of the tools available for testing air flow, pressure, and CO2 levels in relation to preventing the spread of airborne infectious disease, increasing occupant comfort, and maintaining energy-efficient HVAC systems.
  • Verifying Ventilation System Effectiveness Using a Flow Hood
    This video demonstrates how to use a flow hood to test air velocity going through a grill to determine the ventilation system effectiveness, in this case for restroom exhaust. Calculating air changes per hour is also discussed.
  • Assessing Air Pressure in Buildings
    This video demonstrates how to use a digital pressure gauge and/or air flow meter to determine zonal or building pressure relative to another zone or to the outdoors.
  • CO2 Measurement for Healthier Air in Buildings
    In this video, we discuss the use of CO2 monitoring and data logging equipment to help approximate how well a space is being ventilated with fresh air over time, including a demonstration of graphed data analysis.

These tools and many more are available for short term rental – (for free!) at the Smart Buildings Center website.  Follow us on our YouTube Channel for additional video tutorials and other smart buildings content!

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