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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Nowadays, people spend most of their time indoors. Homes, offices, leisure and workplaces must meet people’s needs and provide safe, healthy and productive environments. The supply of fresh air plays an important role in achieving these goals.
Ali Nour Eddine, Sylvain Courtey
Air-supplied ceiling radiant air conditioning is expected to become more popular in Japan in the future because there is no leakage from pipes and no condensation on the surfaces of radiant panels.
Satoshi Noguchi, Yasuyuki Shiraishi, Daishi Inoue, Hiroaki Tanaka
Since the spread of covid-19 in 2019, it is necessary to realize an indoor environment that takes measures against viral infections such as covid-19 and influenza virus.
Keita Mizuno, Isamu Ohta
Sea Water Air Conditioning (SWAC) is a highly efficient alternative to conventional air conditioning that uses deep seawater as a cooling source (Free Cooling).
Kanhan Sanjivy, Olivier Marc, Franck Lucas
This study investigates the impact of lowering temperature setpoints on occupants' thermal comfort in office buildings, prompted by government initiatives in Europe, including the Netherlands, to reduce energy consumption.
Beatriz Coutinho
Nowadays, due to climate change, heatwaves become stronger in terms of frequency and intensity. This phenomenon can have serious impact on the indoor environments, indoor thermal comfort and on public health.
Mohamad El Kadri, Fabrice De Oliveira, Driss Samri, Virginie Desvignes
The progressive increase in the global average outdoor air temperature has caused an increase in the cooling demand in buildings in recent years.
María Jesús Romero-Lara, Francisco Comino, Manuel Ruiz de Adana
The utilization of natural ventilation helps to reduce building energy consumption and improve indoor air quality. In the urban area, the performance of the natural ventilation is very sensitive to surrounding building density.
Zitao Jiang, Tomohiro Kobayashi, Toshio Yamanaka, Noriaki Kobayashi, Narae Choi, Mats Sandberg, Kayuki Sano, Kota Toyosawa
Open offices, where more than one person works, have been used frequently in recent years. However, there are many studies on the efficiency of the indoor air quality of the employees in these offices.
Altug Alp Erdogan, Mustafa Zeki Yilmazoglu, Umit Gencturk
Sleep is essential for overall health and well-being. The quality and efficiency of sleep are strongly influenced by the sleep environment, including indoor air quality.
Jeong Won Kim, Sun Ho Kim, Yong Kyu Baik, Hyeun Jun Moon
Monitoring and regulating the air quality inside critical infrastructure is essential for protecting occupants from external and internal airborne threats, such as pollutants, toxic chemicals, and pathogens.
Paul Brasser, Florian Käding
The accurate estimation of the local wind pressure coefficient is crucial in the numerical modeling of natural or mixed ventilation in buildings subjected to wind.
Marcos Batistella Lopes, Gaëlle Guyot, Nathan Mendes
Elderly people residing in nursing homes spend a vast majority of their times indoors and often in common recreation areas, to allow for socialization and interaction. Elderly people are a vulnerable age group.
Douaa Al Assaad, Quinten Carton, Abantika Sengupta, Hilde Breesch
The main task of every ventilation system is to dilute and extract pollutants from indoor air, most importantly in occupied space. This is usually achieved by exchanging polluted indoor air with less polluted outdoor air.
Sven Auerswald, Andreas Wagner, Hans-Martin Henning
One proposed mitigation to reduce transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and other airborne pathogens is to increase ventilation in buildings.
Sean M. O’Brien, David Artigas, Ece Alan
In recent years, earth-to-air heat exchanger (EAHE) systems, which is a method of pre-cooling and pre-heating outdoor air with earth-to-air heat, have been attracting attention as one of the technologies to achieve ZEB.
Yuki Adachi, Yasuyuki Shiraishi
Most current building materials are industrially processed, resulting in increased carbon emissions. Global annual carbon emissions due to construction materials reached its peak in 2013, 9.5 gigatons of CO2 were produced.
Yannick Thienpont, Seppe Verbiest, Douaa Al Assaad, Hilde Breesch, Alexis Versele
The quality of indoor air in buildings depends on many factors. Some of these factors have internal sources, and some have external sources.
Katarzyna Ratajczak, Maciej Siedlecki
The ASHRAE Standard Project Committee on Ventilation and Acceptable Indoor Air Quality in Residential Buildings (62.2) has proposed an addendum to the standard that adds a harm-based Indoor Air Quality procedure as an alternative compliance method
Benjamin Jones
There are several knowledge gaps that explains a lack of knowledge on minimum ventilation rates for intercepting airborne respiratory infection.
Yuguo Li, Wei Jia

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