AIVC Annotated Bibliographies

Review of Literature Related to Residential Ventilation Requirements

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J. McWilliams, M. Sherman (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
2007, 34 pp, Code BIB 13

This annotated bibliography reviews current ventilation codes and standards for residential buildings in Europe and North America. It also examines the literature related to these standards such as occupant surveys of attitudes and behavior related to ventilation, and research papers that form the technical basis of the ventilation requirements in the standards. The major findings from the literature are that ventilation is increasingly becoming recognized as an important component of a healthy dwelling, that the ventilation standards tend to cluster around common values for recommended ventilation rates, and that surveys of occupants showed that people generally think ventilation is important, but their understanding of the ventilation systems in their houses is low.

Contents

ABSTRACT
 
1         INTRODUCTION
     1.1      BACKGROUND 
     1.2      CALIFORNIA PROGRAMMATIC BACKGROUND
2         REVIEW OF CURRENT CODES AND STANDARDS
3         LISTING OF RELEVANT CODES AND STANDARDS
     3.1      AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS
     3.2      MODEL CODES 
     3.3      STATE AND FEDERAL REGULATIONS
     3.4      INTERNATIONAL CODES AND STANDARDS
     3.5      LABELS, GUIDELINES AND OTHER VOLUNTARY PRACTICES 
4         COMPARISON OF KEY REQUIREMENTS 
     4.1      COMPLIANCE DEMONSTRATION    
     4.2      WHOLE-HOUSE VENTILATION RATES
     4.3      LOCAL EXHAUST RATES
     4.4      INFILTRATION    
     4.5      OPERABLE WINDOWS    
     4.6      AIR DISTRIBUTION AND DUCT LEAKAGE    
     4.7      COMBUSTION EQUIPMENT      
     4.8      FILTRATION AND AIR CLEANING      
     4.9      OTHER SOURCE CONTROL MEASURES        
     4.10    OTHER OCCUPANTS ISSUES    
     4.11    OTHER EQUIPMENT ISSUES      
     4.12    OUTDOOR AIR      
     4.13    ENERGY AND DEMAND IMPACTS      
     4.14    CLIMATIC OR REGIONAL DIFFERENCES       
5         OCCUPANT ACCEPTABILITY, CONTROL AND BEHAVIOR         
     5.1      OCCUPANT SURVEYS     
6         KEY ISSUES
     6.1      DEFINITION OF CONTAMINANT SOURCES  
     6.2      WHOLE-HOUSE VENTILATION RATES
     6.3      LOCAL EXHAUST RATES
     6.4      AIR DISTRIBUTION AND DUCT LEAKAGE 
     6.5      INFILTRATION     
     6.6      WINDOWS AND PASSIVE VENTS      
     6.7      COMBUSTION EQUIPMENT      
     6.8      FILTRATION AND AIR CLEANING       
     6.9      OTHER EQUIPMENT ISSUES – NOISE  
     6.10    ENERGY IMPACTS
7         DISCUSSION OF LITERATURE GAPS
8         KEY FINDINGS 
9         BIBLIOGRAPHY