Maine is adopting new energy efficiency codes to keep up with Green building standards. Although this type of insulation level is a minimum in a green homes, this new regulation will force the Maine home building industry to produce tighter homes saving energy and fossil fuel for all new home buyers. These new codes are a huge step forward for the new home construction industry, consumers should be aware that while increasing the efficiency of the shell of their home they need to now look at indoor air quality. When you tighten a home up you keep the toxins inside the home, this is why LEED practices require addressing the indoor air quality. Air exchange systems are the best way to accomplish an exchange of stale indoor air with fresh air from the outside while keeping the conditioned air within the home, they do this by using a a heat exchanger to transfer the conditioned temperature of the air exiting the home to the fresh air entering the home.
Read the full article in the Portland Press Herald here.
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