Describes the development of the Swedish duct tightness guidelines, the "AMA system". The latest version, due in 1998, aims to increase tightness requirements once again by introducing a tightness class D as the standard requirement for larger spiroduct systems. The concern about an increasing part of the Swedish population becoming allergic and asthmatic led to the Swedish Parliament introducing compulsory inspections of ventilation systems in 1990.
A systematic analysis of ventilation efficiency of indoor climate in buildings is required. The article gives the strategy of that procedure and individual parameters of thermal environment and indoor air quality that must be taken into account. The discrepancies between the actual and projected values is limited. The same applied to energy use. Besides the analysis of air velocity at analyz ed spot the assessment and evaluation of local air turbulence intensity is necessary as well.
A renovation of a dwelling stock in Slovak republic primary mission is a dwelling environment quality increase and dwelling houses essential operative energetical claims decrease. Considerable means of an operative energetical claims decrease of these buildings is their airiness reduction, that leads to an infiltration air change under level of sanitariness needful. A heat consumption for ventilation optimalisation beside a collateral dwelling environment quality increase is possible to reach through a controlled ventilation systems applications.
Heat requirements of ventilation systems are becoming a dominant factor to be considered in energy balances prepared for residential buildings. This results from a consistent improvement of thermal insulating power and better tightness of partitions, as well as from the standards that ventilation systems have to meet in relation to the quality of the indoor air. This factor despite variable volumes of the air exchanged with the external environment, is not always considered in most estimates of thermal power quantities.
A study comparing the effectiveness (as reported by occupants) of passive stack ventilation (PSY) and mechanical extract fans (MEFs) was carried out during the winter of 1996. This involved a face-to-face survey of 437 homes in England. More than 50% of the homes in the study had MEFs, 14% had PSV and 8% had humidistat-controlled MEFs (HMEFs). About 25% of the homes had either a kitchen or a bathroom with no ventilation device and 16% had no ventilation device in the home.
Calibrating air flow measurement devices is a constant headache for users in the field. Peter Downing explains how sophisticated ultrasonics can overcome the problem.
For state of the art buildings ventilation heat loss can exceed 50 percent of the total heat loss of the building. Balanced ventilation systems with heat recovery from the exhaust air lead to bjg costs for ducts. Alternatively, the incoming air of exhaust ventilation systems can be pre-heated by curtain wall facades. A newly developed simulation program for transient analysis of curtain wall systems is validated by measurements. Parameter studies for pre-heating air with curtain walls are presented. Location, orientation, construction, and geometry are considered.
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