Study of the ventilation on an ancient building located in the centre of Rome and now used as a university office.

An investigation of some Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) parameters in a significant office of the State in the area of Rome was undertaken. The aim, in future, will be to cover a wide range of situations in various buildings and organisations, to achieve data to improve the working conditions, to have a more healthy working environment, to optimize energy consumption and energy management. Analysis of IAQ parameters was performed by field measurements; conditions of the ventilation systems were checked by local inspections, code simulations by the multizone model CONTAM96 by NIST (National Institute of Standard and Technologies USA) were undertaken and compared with the measures, reproducing the local conditions with data extracted from the technical literature.