FORESIGHT HOME PERFORMANCE

Mark Meiling, since 1980 and FHP since 1996, has designed solutions (for home performance issues listed directly below) for 4,500+ homes. Virtually all residential buildings have suffered from uneven heating and cooling, wet and moldy attics, ice damage, window rot from condensation, poor indoor air quality, smoke odor from smoky fireplaces, and high energy use from either inadequate insulation or leaking air since insulation has been installed in houses. FHP has mastered what it takes to resolve these issues. It designs reliable solutions for these issues because of its clear understanding of the concepts of air, heat, and water vapor flows through building assemblies. Mark began working in the energy conservation field as early as 1980. He was an energy efficiency program coordinator for a non-profit organization in charge of reducing energy usage in Milwaukee homes. He became an Energy Auditor for the Wisconsin Gas Company (now WE Energies) in 1984. Per state legislation, the utilities were commanded to offer energy incentives to homeowners to do energy saving items identified during site visits. He provided these services for the gas company up to 1996 when he created ForeSight Home Performance. From 1999-2014 he was a subcontractor for the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA's) multi-million dollar Noise Management Program for Mitchell International Airport. During that time he was the Senior Indoor Air Quality Technician in charge of writing contractor specifications, designing scopes of work, and performance testing installers' work to verify successful conformance with program standards. Noise mitigation work closely mirrors energy reduction work, and homes suffer from the problems listed in the paragraph above when work is not successfully completed. Since 1999, when FHP began offering testing beyond those offered beyond those of typical energy auditors, it guarantees the solutions it designs. FHP automatically includes all the typical tests that other energy auditors provide: Blower Door Test: as per ASTM - E779 Exhaust Fan Air Flow: as per ASHRAE 62-2 (2010) Worst Case Depressurization: A simplified test where if an appliance fails the only solutions are very expensive Testing services that FHP offers that exceed what other auditors provide: Worst Case Depressurization: A sophisticated testing protocol where if an appliance fails, low cost solutions will be known and offered when available Multi-zonal/Series Air Leakage Tests: as per ASTM - E1186 (Open a hole, Open a door, Attic Vent, Infrared camera, and Air flow smoke Recessed Light Air Leakage: as per ASTM - E783 and SPS 322.32(4)(b) Window Air Leakage: as per ASTM - E783 and SPS 322.32(2) Home Heating Index: a low cost calculation to determine how ones house stacks up against all other houses regardless of size. Duct Air Leakage: Pressure Pan, Subtraction Method, and SPS 322.43(6) FHP's resolves issues with a wholistic approach that determines causation using the above identified performance tests, let's correct your primary issue without unwittingly creating other performance issues which is the case with the approach with so many other contractors. Air pressure data collected in a computer app allows FHP to design RELIABLE solutions from a detailed analysis.