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3398 Washington Road
Atlanta, GA 30344
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773.398.5288

Advanced residential construction and home improvement consulting and owner's advocacy in Atlanta, using the latest building performance diagnostic and modeling techniques and tools. Airtightness, insulation, HVAC, ventilation, moisture, and air quality and EMF consulting for homeowners and building professionals alike.

Videos/Podcasts/Articles

Home performance articles and stories from the field with internationally respected building forensics guru Corbett Lunsford at the Building Performance Workshop. Hear new episodes of the Building Performance Podcast, see new videos from the Home Performance YouTube channel, and learn all about how diagnostic testing (more than an 'Energy Audit') can make home improvement and new home construction a proven process!

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Central Vacuum System with HEPA Filter: Performance Testing for a Healthy Home

Corbett Lunsford

For our forever home, we chose the NuTone PurePower 650 central vacuum, which I piped, wired, and installed myself (not very difficult, though parts are hard to get ahold of in a hurry, if you run out).

Check out this system, and other Broan-NuTone machines: https://broan-nutone.com/

See the Testo 440 kit I'm using for the diagnostics: https://www.trutechtools.com/Testo-440

The HAVEN central duct system IAQ sensor I flashed to show the effectiveness of the HEPA filter: https://tzoa.com/

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categories Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Testing Tools, Videos
tags central, vacuum, house, construction, new, home, build, diy, self, built, how to, test, diagnose, suction, noise, quiet, sound, sones, performance, quality, high, broan, nutone, nu tone, pure power

Lessons Learned Building High Performance Forever Homes: Factory-Built Modular Home & Self-Build DIY

Corbett Lunsford

For the national home performance conference, we presented side-by-side with our longtime friend and collaborator Bill Spohn (https://spohnhome.com/) about our simultaneous building of family forever homes. Pretty different approaches, and yes, this is a long presentation- hope the super nerds out there will enjoy hearing the breakdown.

Find Bill through his company, TruTech Tools: https://TruTechTools.com

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categories Architecture, Around the World, Homeowner education, Performance Pros, Real Estate, Videos
tags forever home, high performance, house, construction, building, how to, diy, family, factory, built, modular, self, yourself, atlanta, building science, expert, consultant

Building Science of the Stone Age in the Amazon Rain Forest

Corbett Lunsford

From Serbian building scientist Atila Novoselac (Prof. Civil, Arch, and Env Engineering at University of Texas-Austin) comes reflections on a Sloan study of microbiology in homes from the Stone Age, which are still constructed today in the Amazon rain forest. Hear what makes modern homes different from someone who's been to the other side, and why modernization itself can be a major building performance problem.

Watch this entire series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsc2-5fAgMq4I_Bjpvmb1Z39Y0uEMGEC9

Join the Building Performance Association: http://building-performance.org

Check out the Building Performance Journal: http://homeenergy.org

Learn more about HOMEChem: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv/homechem

Watch the first-ever TV series about the science of homes: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv

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categories From the Field, Around the World, Videos
tags homechem, amazon, rain, forest, tribes, house, huts, homes, construction, built, building, stone age, ancient, leaky, thatch, atila, novoselac, sloan, foundation, cie, microbiology, microbiome