Airbase

AIRBASE is the Bibliographic Database of the AIVC. It contains publications and abstracts of articles related to energy efficient ventilation. Where possible, sufficient detail is supplied in the bibliographic details for users to trace and order the material via their own libraries. Topics include: ventilation strategies, design and retrofit methods, calculation techniques, standards and regulations, measurement methods, indoor air quality and energy implications etc. Entries are based on articles and reports published in journals, internal publications and research reports, produced both by university departments and by building research institutions throughout the world. AIRBASE has grown and evolved over many years (1979 to present day, over 22000 references and 16000 documents available online). For most of the references, the full document is also available online.

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While a growing body of scientific literature describes the population health impacts of fossil fuel production and burning via climate and air pollution pathways, less is known about the health impacts of indoor combustion.
Jacob Bueno de Mesquita, Núria Casquero-Modrego, Iain Walker, Brennan Less, Brett Singer
The main focus of this paper can be summarized in terms of the following two presuppositions: i) The process through which we select and apply indoor-environmental quality (IEQ) constructs could be – perhaps should be – improved; ii) Such improvem
Ardeshir Mahdavi, Christiane Berger
Low energy buildings are highly insulated and airtight and therefore subject to overheating risks, where Ventilative Cooling (VC) could be a relevant solution in both existing and new buildings - being both a sustainable and energy efficient solut
Christoffer Plesner, Jannick K. Roth
The TAIL rating scheme for assessing the quality of Thermal, Acoustic, Indoor air, Luminous, and the overall environment was initially developed to assess indoor environmental quality (IEQ) in hotels and offices.
Minh Tien Tran, Wenjuan Wei, Claire Dassonville, Corinne Mandin, Mickael Derbez, Christophe Martinsons, Pascal Ducruet, Valérie Héquet, Pawel Wargocki
We sleep more than twenty years during our lives. Sleep is essential for physical and psychological health. Yet, nearly no standards define indoor environmental quality conditions for optimal sleep.
Pawel Wargocki, Mizuho Akimoto, Xiajoun Fan, Shin-ichi Tanabe, Chandra Sekhar, Li Lan
The growing challenges of climate change, urbanization, and increased energy demand have underscored the critical need for sustainable and resilient cooling solutions in buildings.
Peter Holzer
With many existing Austrian school buildings to be renovated in the coming years, there are debates between stakeholders, about which ventilation strategy to pursue in existing schools.
Simon Beck, Gabriel Rojas, Elena Krois, Sebastian Goreth, Christian Hechenberger
A Canadian provincial government has initiated a collaboration with the Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) team of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to conduct a controlled intervention study to determine the effectiveness of portable air cleane
Liang Grace Zhou, Chang Shu, Justin Berquist, Janet Gaskin, Greg Nilsson
As a result of the new initiatives and regulations towards nearly zero energy buildings, designers are more frequently exploiting the cooling potential of the climate to reduce overheating and improve indoor well-being of people.
Valentina Radice Fossati, Annamaria Belleri, Dick van Dijk
Overheating in school buildings is likely to lead to a negative learning performance experience for occupants in these settings.
Adam O’ Donovan, Elahe Tavakoli, Paul D. O’Sullivan
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised concerns about indoor ventilation conditions worldwide.
Liangzhu (Leon) Wang, Ibrahim Reda, Shujie Yan, Eslam Ali, Dahai Qi, Theodore Stathopoulos, Andreas Athienitis
This paper presents the results of an Indoor Environment Quality (IEQ) monitoring study (including relative humidity, temperature and IAQ in terms of indoor CO₂) in naturally ventilated dwellings (mainly based on vertical shafts and infiltrations)
Sonia Garcia-Ortega, Pilar Linares-Alemparte
Smart ventilation which provides air renewal thanks to its variable airflows adjusted on the needs can improve both indoor air quality (IAQ) and energy performance of buildings.
Baptiste Poirier, Gaëlle Guyot, Monika Woloszyn
Embedding robust yet accessible frameworks to evaluate ventilative cooling potential during the early/concept design stages for building practitioners can help in reducing the performance gap as well as avoiding vulnerability “lock-in” from design
Paul D O’Sullivan, Adam O’Donovan, Maha Sohail
Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) sensors measuring Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) seem to be an obvious step towards broadly available Demand Controlled Ventilation (DCV).
Jakub Kolarik
To achieve future-proof buildings, it is crucial to design buildings and systems that can withstand to shocks (like heat waves and power outages) and reduce the impact of shocks on thermal comfort in a building.
Joost Declercq, Shiva Khosravi, Abantika Sengupta, Hilde Breesch
With rising insulation standards and air tightness in buildings, the use of mechanical ventilation becomes more relevant. In this context, energy recovery offers a significant contribution to the decarbonisation of building operations.
Martin Kremer, Kai Rewitz, Dirk Müller
Literature on the in-situ performance evaluation of Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery (MVHR) in low-carbon social housing suggests that they can maintain a healthy ventilation rate in bedrooms in the UK.
Faisal Farooq, Emmanouil Perisoglou, Miltiadis Ionas, Simon Lannon, Jo Patterson, Phil Jones
Mass gathering events were closed in 2020 to reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2. These events included music concerts, theatre shows, and sports matches.
Ben M. Roberts, Filipa Adzic, E. Abigail Hathway, Christopher Iddon, Benjamin Jones, Malcolm J. Cook, Liora Malki-Epshtein
An approach has previously been developed to estimate space-specific carbon dioxide (CO2) levels that can serve as metrics for the adequacy of outdoor ventilation rates.
Oluwatobi Oke, Andrew Persily

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