New Residential Construction in Kansas City

With 30 years of construction services experience, Jon is now heading up the New Residential Construction HVAC division of C.M. Mose and Son. Jon has helped design HVAC systems into hundreds of new homes. He specializes in the planning and execution of a home’s room to room load calculation in a new construction setting.

BTU’s and CFM’s are crucial to the new construction process

The benefits of using a load calculation are to accurately determine the size of your furnace and A/C, and the size of supply air and return air in each room.  Building a new home without a proper load calculation can result in either too few, too many, too large, or too small supply/return air registers. These factors affect the heating and cooling of individual rooms, as well as the entire house. A room that was too hot in the summer or too cold in the winter had been attributed to a lack of insulation. Our Kansas City heating and cooling team now know this problem is more than likely the result of a poorly designed HVAC system.

Load Calculation for New Construction

When we perform a load calculation for a new construction home, we draw the entire house using specialized software. Detailed information is input into the program, such as the construction method, and the construction materials used to construct that specific home. These details help determine the BTU and CFM requirements for every room in the house.

Another benefit of performing a load calculation is determining perfect climate comfort. With ideal climate comfort, a homeowner and the house experiences proper humidification. An undersized HVAC system that was designed and installed in the home will long cycle, an oversized HVAC system will short cycle. A house that is utilizing load calculations from our experts will benefit from a system that has the proper run time, whether it is winter or summer.

Designing and sizing an HVAC system using load calculations combined with a humidifier will control the humidity in the home during the winter season. The same is true in the summer; with the proper sizing and run time, the A/C system will remove the appropriate amount of humidity. The correct humidity levels will protect your trim, wood floors, clothes, other electrical equipment, furniture, and collectibles that will be adversely affected by humidity levels that are too high or too low.

There are very few HVAC companies in Kansas City that use this type of calculation software for residential new home construction. Out of the thousands of homes that are built in Kansas City every year, far too many go without this essential and useful tool for planning and building a homes’ HVAC system.

Make better HVAC equipment decisions with a load calculation

Wyandotte County is the only county in Kansas and Missouri that requires a load calculation for new construction projects. Designing new construction HVAC systems with a load calculation can have a tremendous impact on home efficiencies and energy savings. A system that is undersized or oversized is going to cost you money in energy bills. A load calculation ensures the adequately sized HVAC system for your new construction home.