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Commissioning of CCHT test houses shows interesting results

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  1. National Research Council of Canada. NRC Institute for Research in Construction
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SubjectHousing technology
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During the fall and early winter, Mike Swinton, Research Manager of the Canadian Centre for Housing Technology (CCHT), and his team were busy calibrating and commissioning the centre's reference and test houses. This is for good reason because in order to obtain accurate and significant results when evaluating a new technology in the test house, it is critical to ensure that it is operating as closely as possible to the reference house before making any changes. This meant weeks of painstaking work, looking closely at thousands of details from sensors to data acquisition system operation, temperature distributions, gas and electrical consumption of specific appliances and components, as well as hundred of on/off events of the simulated occupancy system.
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  • Solplan Review, no. March 91 (1 March 2000): 18–.
LanguageEnglish
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NRC numberNRCC 47073
NRC-IRC-16355
NPARC number20378190
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