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Bibliographic database 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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Many naturally ventilated building designs rely on buoyancy (or “stack effect”) and night cooling of the structure. It is well known that for an exposed building, even mild winds can produce pressures well above those due to stack effect.
Within the Polish - Norwegian project SUREBILD (Sustainable Redevelopment of Buildings) special attention was paid to find the economically feasible technologies that might improve current poor indoor air quality in Polish schools.
Ventilation Design in High-Rise Residential Buildings and Infectious Disease Spread | 2007 | English
In the SARS epidemics in 2003, cluster of cases occurred in high-rise residential(HRR) building blocks, especially in Hong Kong, which gave rise to the concern of the possible roles of air flow.
The article shows methods for wind influence on building ventilation systems analysis.Solution has been carried out through the experiment in wind tunnel as well as by CFDmodelling.
The density of Dhaka is increasing exponentially, and with it the demand for residentialaccommodation. Rapid densification is increasing hard surfaces and changing the urbantexture, thereby escalating heat absorption.
This research proposes a simple device added to a window. The device improves indoorventilation using solar heat.
This paper presents a new design concept of hybrid air conditioning system by using aportable air conditioner to achieve a better personal control of indoor environment withoutsacrificing the responsibility to a sustainable environment.
Recently, the ventilation for the removal of pollutants has received much attention in responseto the increased needs for the health and better comforts of the occupants in apartmenthousing.
In order to compare measurements and subjective votes on thermal comfort in a nonconditionedindoor environment under German climate conditions, a field survey was carriedout in an office and laboratory building in Karlsruhe during July 2005.
In this article the concept of a new energy-efficient office building and results of a 3-year monitoring are described. The monitoring was performed within the German funding pro-gramme EnOB [1].
The performance of “hybrid controlled” trickle ventilators, that is background ventilators whose opening area depends upon both the pressure difference across the vent and the relative humidity of the room air, are investigated by means of compute
The fungal index is a biological climate-parameter, which represents the environmental capacity toallow fungal growth.
Many homes in New Zealand are poorly constructed and maintained for the climate with inadequateheating resulting in winter temperatures that frequently fall below the World Health Organisationrecommended level of 18C.
Methods of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) have been applied to predict the details of air,contaminant and thermal transport within isolated building zones, yet zone transport processes do notoccur in isolation they result from and interact wi
Recent studies suggest the reactions between ozone and indoor materials and contaminants caninfluence human health and perceived indoor air quality within a building. This analysis uses datafrom the U.S.
To achieve the Kyoto Protocol target, additional measures for reducing GHGs from the building sectoris a strong requirement in Japan.
Methods are needed for the evaluation of the energy performance of complete buildings and parts ofbuildings or building installations.
Houses which use only electricity are becoming popular in Japan. Electromagnetic ranges (IH range)are used in those houses. The updraft above an IH range is slower than a gas range.
Experiments using human subjects have been conducted to investigate the physiological andpsychological responses to two different heating methods, i.e. floor heating and air conditioner, in ahighly insulated house.