Purdue University Purdue e-Pubs International High Performance Buildings School of Mechanical Engineering Conference 2010 Analysis of Energy Performance of the Sustainable Archetype House at Kortright Centre Rupayan Barua Ryerson University Dahai Zhang Ryerson University Alan S. Fung Ryerson University Follow this and additional works at: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/ihpbc Barua, Rupayan; Zhang, Dahai; and Fung, Alan S., "Analysis of Energy Performance of the Sustainable Archetype House at Kortright Centre" (2010). International High Performance Buildings Conference. Paper 49. http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/ihpbc/49 This document has been made available through Purdue e-Pubs, a service of the Purdue University Libraries. Please contact
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[email protected] ABSTRACT A long term monitoring system has been implemented in the TRCA (Toronto and Region Conservation Authority) Archetype Sustainable House to comprehensively monitor the energy performance of the archetype twin-houses and to investigate the effectiveness and efficiency of the mechanical systems. Two different sets of HVAC systems were installed in each of these twin houses: current practices and technologies in House-A, and sustainable technologies for future practices in House-B. Instrumentation of the monitoring system in House-B has been completed.