Jim Crockett Editor-in-Chief

A+ for IAQ IQ

Many engineers are predisposed to the notion that a high-performance building simply can't deliver ideal indoor air quality because of the costs associated with conditioning lots of outside air. To that, the engineers from Lentz Engineering Assocs., Avon, Conn., say, "Nuts." WWII buffs know that's the famed response of General Tony McAuliffe to a request by the advancing German Army for him to surrender at Bastogne. That bit of American vernacular confused the German officers.