Proposed Overall Home Comfort Rating

Anthony Grisolia, managing director of Innovation Programs at IBACOS, writes an article in Builder about a new home comfort rating system by IBACOS that he states will “objectively measure, predict, and compare a home’s overall ability to deliver comfort to its occupants.”  It’s called the Thermal Comfort Rating Metric, or a TCRM, which IBACOS believes will help builders deliver on their commitment to high performance homes.  According to Grisolia, because thermal comfort and energy efficiency are not the same,  one can’t accurately predict a home’s thermal comfort using only energy-efficiency metrics.  IBACOS also doesn’t think that “the complex ways comfort is measured by building scientists translate well for builders and home buyers.”  Find out more about this new rating system and the plan for this project over the next few years.  Read More in Builder >