How to Use the Cooling Load Ballpark Estimator
How to use the Cooling Load Ballpark Estimator: a pre-design and design-phase "sanity check" for your load calculation.
A heating and cooling load calculation finds the capacity a building’s HVAC equipment must meet. These posts cover the building information a load calculation needs, how efficiency measures change the loads, and walkthroughs of the Cooling Load Ballpark Estimator and the Duct Size Calculator. For stamped load calculations on an industrial, commercial or multi-family project, see Cooling Load/Heat Load Calculations.
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How to Use the Duct Size Calculator (Ductulator)
Step by step: size a round or rectangular duct with Adicot's free Duct Size Calculator (ductulator), check an existing duct, and convert round to rectangular.
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Collecting Building Info for Load and Energy Calcs
How one client laid out building information for our load and energy calculations: a best-practice example of what to collect and how to present it.
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Heat Load Calculations - Baseline vs High Efficiency
Baseline vs high-efficiency loads for a geodesic-dome building: how air tightness, LED lighting, better glass and pretreated outside air shrink them.
