Design Resources

In order to ensure trouble-free operation, there are a few simple periodic maintenance tasks to perform on your CERV. This guide will take you through the process of changing filters, checking the outdoor vents, and ensuring the condensate drain remains unobstructed.

The CERV2 is installed and ready to turn on...so now what? This guide will get you up and running so the CERV can start managing your indoor air quality right away!

Do you have an old ERV or HRV that has overstayed its welcome? Want to level up your indoor air quality with the CERV2's built-in IAQ sensing technology? Replacing your old ERV or HRV with the CERV2 is a simple task with great rewards!

In older homes or buildings where adding new ductwork can be challenging, the CERV2 offers a unique solution by directly interfacing with a central system's ductwork. In this setup, the CERV effectively functions as an air purifier and fresh air injector within the existing HVAC framework.

Deep retrofits on old homes allow great opportunities to cut utility bills and increase comfort. Insulating and sealing an older home without adding ventilation will most definitely result in indoor air quality and moisture issues, so now is the perfect time to install a CERV!

Everything you need to know about how to install the CERV Indoor Air Quality Management system into a new home. New construction provides the most opportunities to customize the CERV to your home design.

Radiant heating and cooling systems have many advantages, but careful consideration must be taken to prevent moisture issues and consistent comfort conditions. In this article, we provide information and tools to help design radiant systems properly.

Learn how to optimize the efficiency of heat pumps for high-performance homes by sizing them correctly and understanding their operational capacities in this comprehensive guide. Discover the principles behind maximizing energy savings while ensuring optimal comfort levels throughout the year.

The CERV2 does more than control air quality, temperature and humidity in a seamless manner. CERV2 integrated moisture management supercharges dehumidification by increasing both dehumidification capacity and dehumidification efficiency!

Efficiently maintaining a healthy indoor environment is complicated. Automatic control, or “smart ventilation”, is important for meeting a home’s dynamic fresh air requirements while relieving the home occupants’ stress worrying about air quality. Effective distribution of fresh air within a home is essential for ensuring all occupied regions within a home are kept healthy.

Today’s high performance homes require smart fresh air ventilation and smart comfort conditioning systems that are responsive to the dynamics of human activities.  Proper accounting for human ventilation needs and comfort conditioning preferences requires statistical assessments to design homes that are likely to satisfy most people.

This report series discusses sources of moisture in homes, climate impact on a home’s moisture management requirements, moisture management methods, and overall house modeling of moisture and energy.

How much should a ventilation system’s ductwork cost? And, how can one determine if an installed duct network performs at an acceptable level? We begin a new topic, “Ductology” with a two-part series that explores these questions.

Part 2 of Ductology focuses on the performance of ventilation ductwork. In this article, we describe two “rough-in” tests that should be performed on installed duct systems before ducts are hidden behind wallboard and ceilings.

The Covid Safe Space IAQ calculator has been constructed as a design tool and communication platform to help groups create Covid Safe Spaces. Beyond our immediate concern of developing Covid Safe Spaces is the more permanent need to establish truly healthy indoor environments.