A motorized window with one or more motors and a frame with a slidable segment is disclosed. A drive system with pulleys engages with a belt or chain mounted to the frame or slidable segment. Rotating a first pulley in a first rotational direction causes the first pulley to pull the slidable segment in a first linear direction. Rotating the first pulley in a second rotational direction causes the first pulley to pull the slidable segment in a second linear direction. Preferably, a controller controls the operation of the motors. Sensors inform the controller, and user input via a mobile device enables both direct user control and programming of the controller.

A vapor mitigation apparatus and method for use with the construction of a building. The apparatus includes a vertical securing piece configured to be affixed to a foundation wall proximate a footing that is supporting the foundation wall. The vertical securing piece has a first end located proximate to a footing and a second end. A horizontal foot is located at the first end of the securing piece and extends away from the securing piece. The horizontal foot is configured to rest against the footing. The apparatus also includes a mechanical clip located at the second end of the vertical securing piece and is configured to secure a piece of plastic sheeting. The method includes securing the apparatus to the foundation wall, securing a plastic sheeting to the mechanical clip and then creating a concrete slab by pouring concrete over the apparatus.

An fluid monitoring system can include a filter having an upstream face and a downstream face and defining a form factor, a sensor package arranged within the form factor of the filter to detect at least one quality factor of a surrounding medium, a transmitter electronically coupled to the sensor package and including an antenna for autonomous wireless transmission of the detected fluid quality information, and a power subsystem coupled to the sensor package and the transmitter to provide access to continuous electrical power thereto.

The invention describes a ventilation system for a building. The ventilation system compares interior air with exterior air and exchanges the air when needed. Measuring both interior and exterior air increases energy conservation and reduces the likelihood of harmful contaminants in the building.

A building control system includes a sensor unit, a space controller, and a controlled device. The space controller is configured to operate one or more controlled devices to affect one or more environmental conditions of a first space of a building. The sensor unit is communicably coupled to the space controller and is configured to be disposed in the first space. The sensor unit includes one or more sensors. The sensor unit is configured to determine an environmental condition of the first space based on sensor data from the sensor and configured to provide at least some of the sensor data to the space controller. The controlled device is communicably coupled to the sensor unit and is operable to affect the environmental condition of the first space. The sensor unit is configured to control the controlled device independently from the space controller.

A vapor management system includes a monitoring service system configured to communicate one or more system parameters with at least one vapor mitigation system. The monitoring service system is further configured to generate a user interface. The user interface is configured to display and permit adjustment of the one or more system parameters.

A planar, pliable sealing member is provided as a flexible seal for covering an upper opening of the well pit for any configuration of sump pump system. The sealing member forms a continuous membrane that provides a gas seal formed of any suitable non-gas diffusive or selectively gas diffusive material, including various elastomeric rubbers, such as butyl rubbers or other similar or functionally equivalent polymeric or co-polymeric rubbers. A seal at an outer periphery hat forms a continuous adhesive seal. The membrane further forms access orifices to allow for the passage of egressing structures such as pump discharge, ventilation, sump electrical connections, etc. A second sealing element is then applied or affixed providing an air-tight seal between the membrane at each orifice and a surface of any egressing structure. The second sealing element may be a similar adhesive, mastic or caulking material as with the first sealing element.

A vapor management system includes a monitoring service system configured to communicate one or more system parameters with at least one vapor mitigation system. The monitoring service system is further configured to generate a user interface. The user interface is configured to display and permit adjustment of the one or more system parameters.

A device for treating the air in a confined space has a first module and a second module that are telescopically coupled, in such a way that the two modules can slide one respect to the other in order to adjust to a different thickness of a wall that separates the inside from the outside. The device has a heat exchanger disposed in the first module, a first fan disposed in the first module downstream a filter to extract air from the outside to the inside, and a second fan disposed in the second module to extract air from the inside to the outside. The device also has a radon detector connected to a control unit that controls the two fans.

Apparatus and associated methods relate to calculating a single composite score that indicates an atmospheric environment quality level of a building. Such a composite score is calculated using sensors from three distinct types of atmospheric environmental categories: i) thermal comfort; ii) ventilation; and iii) air quality. Because the sensors used to detect these distinct types of atmospheric environmental categories are indicative of dissimilar metrics of quality of the atmospheric environment, the dissimilar metrics are normalized so as to be combinable. The dissimilar metrics are normalized based on measures of acceptability of the metrics. Each of the dissimilar metrics is given the same normalized score when the dissimilar metrics correspond to the same level of acceptability for that metric. The levels of acceptability may be determined based on one or more building industry standards.