The Ken Soble Tower EnerPHit is reaching completion. The final step before certification has been achieved.
A couple of weekends ago the team completed their blower door test. This is done by using blower door fans and pressurizing the building and measuring how much air is needed to maintain that pressure (hence how much air is leaking through the building). The team worked closely together to ensure a simple design that was easy to construct and the builders and installers have worked meticulously to ensure a quality construction. This paid off. The minimum requirement for EnerPHits is 1 ACH [Air Changes per Hour] at 50Pa [a similar pressure to a very strong wind], to achieve certification on this project the team needed to achieve 0.6 ACH at 50Pa. The final test achieved 0.235 ACH at 50Pa. Well exceeding our expectations and adding some buffer to the Passive House Model and overall energy consumed for the project.
To see the latest pictures of the project check out the video above done by ERA Architects and this article here: https://www.eraarch.ca/project/ken-soble-tower-transformation/
JMV Consulting is proud to be the Passive House Designer on the project and to have worked with the incredible team at ERA Architects, Reinbold Engineer (mechanical) , Entuitive (building envelope), Nemetz (electrical) and Transsolar (thermal comfort / Passive House).