[Greenbuilding] fresh air in a library

[Nick Pine]

Tom Genovese <tgoyle at yahoo.com> writes:

>the warm attic tells me there is  plenty of air exchange, despite shell 
>upgrades.

Because the attic is vented to the outdoors and warmed from heated air 
below? Maybe they should fix that :-)

>I want to  recommend installing dampers in the ducts and closing them 
>as much  as they want. Can anyone suggest how to make a case for 
>shunning  the code-driven fresh air intakes that are there?

A $500 CO2 monitor might let the librarians know when more fresh air is 
needed, so they can open the dampers. Or let the monitor open motorized 
dampers.

Nick