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Load Calculations
From load calculations, to equipment selection and duct design.
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Our services include Manual J, Manual D, Manual T, and Manual S.
- When you get all four manuals done and have a well designed HVAC system, the result can be a high performance system that’s more efficient and comfortable than what’s typically installed. Of course, you can have the best HVAC design in the world, but if it’s not installed as designed, your performance goes out the window. That’s why it’s a good idea to have every new system fully commissioned
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MANAUL J
This one is for determining how much heat the house loses in winter and gains in summer. You do this room-by-room for the whole house, which allows you to determine how much conditioned air each room needs for both heating and cooling. It factors in all the surfaces of the building envelope, with their areas and insulation levels. Each wall is given its proper orientation, because windows and doors are attached to them. Other important data include the location and tightness of the duct system, the infiltration rate of the house, the internal loads (appliances and people), and where the house is located.
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The results specify the BTUs of heat lost by each room in the winter and gained in the summer. The heat gain is split into two parts: Sensible (related to temperature) and latent (related to humidity). The heat gained or lost in a room then determines how much conditioned air that room needs, in cubic feet per minute (CFM).
MANUAL D
Finally, once you know how many cubic feet per minute of conditioned air you need for each room, what equipment you’re using, and how you’re distributing the air in the room, you can design the duct system. Here you look at the location of the air handler, the distance to the ducts, how many turns the ducts have to make, and how much air needs to be delivered. The type of duct has a big impact on the results, as sheet metal ducts have a lower friction rate than flex duct or rigid fiberglass duct board.
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Basically, with Manual D, you’re trying to balance the delivery of the correct amount of air against the friction rate of the ducts and the static pressures in the system.
MANUAL S
Once you know the amount of conditioned air necessary in each room, you have to select the equipment. What air conditioner, heat pump, furnace, or boiler are you going to install? With forced air systems, this part is critical because every piece of equipment has different characteristics – sensible and latent capacities, the amount of air moved, and the static pressures being the key ones for the next stages.
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Manual D is a service provided for commercial or new homes. Existing home can benefit by having new Duct system designed.
MANUAL T
From the room-by-room loads and cfm requirements, you can determine how to distribute the air in the room so that you get enough to meet the needs (the higher of the heating and cooling cfm requirements from Manual J). The questions you answer here are: Where will the supply registers, diffusers, or grills be located? Where will the return grills be located? What type of register, diffuser, or grill will you use? How big does it need to be?
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Good choices here will eliminate problems of feeling drafts from the moving air or having inadequate mixing of the air. It’s possible to get enough conditioned air into a room but still have it uncomfortable because all the air just sits at the register.
Development Packages
Manual J
$79
Load Calculation
Manual S
$59
Equipment Selection
Manual D
$99
Duct Design
Manual T
$89
Air Distribution