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Latest News
AccuRATE V1.1.3.0
The latest version of 2nd Gen BTP
Assessment tools has been released.
DoP agree to a new Pilot to
commence early February 2007.
BASIX (DIY)
Review
ABSA instrumental in securing DoP
DIY Sustainability Tool - DoP Review...not independent but a starting point
Visit the ABSA Site for further
details.
DIY found to lower the standard of
Residential Building BTP in NSW - varies between 200% to 400% below Simulation
Method when compared with NatHERS and far more variation expected to AccuRATE.
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Greenhouse
The Cross
ventilation information describes the actions of external temperature variations
assisting venting of air across buildings.
The Green House creates an
internal heated space which extracts warm air to encourage cross ventilation.
The greenhouse is conventionally used to create temperatures
suiting plant propagation year round irrespective of external conditions. This
may result in conditions outside the human comfort range inside the greenhouse
where tropical vegetation is propagated.
Greenhouse can have extended actions as a non-habitable space to also
extenuate cross ventilation by encouraging warm air to vent out of the
greenhouse, with replacement air to flow from the abutting building to encourage
ventilation there.
As this action may be needed for only part of the year, with the greenhouse
used for humid vegetation propagation at other times, defined openings with
sealing closure may be needed between the greenhouse and to the building.
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