Inhabitant's behaviour with respect to ventilation.

Annex VIII is a two year task sharing project, started offically in 1984. Although some research had already been done on the problem of inhabitant's behaviour with regard to ventilation, none had gone so far as to access whether and how the ventilation behaviour can be modified in order to save energy and by taking into account the conflicting requirements, energy conservation and adequate indoor air quality.

User behaviour in regard to ventilation and its consequences for energy. Exploratory study.

An abridged version of the study carried out under the auspices of the Federal Office of Energy by the Institute for Building Research of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich.

French ventilation regulations.

   

The Eighth AIVC Conference - summing up.

Summary of papers in the Proceedings of the Eighth AIVC Conference. Headings include measurement techniques, calculation techniques, design (control of the internal environment) and the positive aspects of ventilation and infiltration.

Ventilation rates and energy losses due to window opening behaviour.

This paper describes one of the results of the IEA-annex 8 "Inhabitants behaviour with regard to ventilation". Annex 8 has shown that the occupants can play a rather important role with regard to the ventilation rates inoccupied buildings. This paper gives some practical 'rules of thumb' for estimating air flow rates through open windows. An overview of measured and estimated ventilation rates in houses is given from which a simplified approach is derived that takes into account the air tightness of the building and the behaviour.

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