Mis-sized and overly-costly heating and cooling choices do not benefit anyone. They often cost more to install, can result in extraordinary maintenance and renewals costs, and may still fall short of delivering 12 month comfort for residents..Understanding the heat-loss calculation for a home is the foundation of Heating and Cooling design and will be summarized in this session. Building on right-sizing choices, this session goes a bit outside of the box to fully explain (in simple but revealing ways) the concepts of operation including challenges and opportunities that will help attendees to make the best choice of systems for the builder and the occupant. Forced Air, Heat Pumps, Radiant Systems and even passive systems and the good old fashion wood burner will be discussed and the best systems moving forward may be very different that what has been typically chosen in the past.

***This online course is available On Demand. There are no tests required***