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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Climate control of cabin aircraft is traditionally conditioned as a single unit by the environmental control system.
Mathieu Le Cam, Tejaswinee Darure, Mateusz Pawlucki
Unintended Infiltration in buildings is responsible for a significant portion of the global housing stock energy demand.
Benedikt Kölsch, Iain S. Walker, William W. Delp, Björn Schiricke, Bernhard Hoffschmidt
Unintended airflow through building envelopes leads to an increased demand in heating and cooling energy.
Benedikt Kölsch, Björn Schiricke, Eckhard Lüpfert, Bernhard Hoffschmidt
New types of low-cost sensors have the potential to replace existing sensor networks in buildings, which have high cost and low flexibility in terms of monitoring local indoor environmental quality (IEQ) close to the occupants.
Michael Kim, Hejia Zhang, Athanasios Tzempelikos, Andrea Gasparella, Francesca Cappelletti
Maintaining thermal comfort in buildings has become a big challenge in developing countries.
Salem A. Algarni
Indoor air quality (IAQ) control in educative centres, where students spend most of their time, is essential.
Héctor Jimeno-Merino, Irene Poza-Casado, Raquel Gil-Valverde, Diego Tamayo-Alonso, Andrés Royuela-del-Val, Alberto Meiss, M. A. Padilla-Marcos, Jesús Feijó-Muñoz
Nowadays, many countries include requirements for building airtightness in their current national regulations or energy-efficiency programs, mainly for concern about reducing building energy consumption due to air leakage.
Adeline Mélois, Mohamed El Mankibi, François Rémi Carrié, Bassam Moujalled
Powerhouse Telemark is a low carbon plus energy project in Porsgrunn, Norway. The building is currently in a commissioning phase, but with most of the building under normal operation.
Tor Helge Dokka, DrIng Niels Lassen, Thomas Johnsen, Helge Koppang
Indoor air quality (IAQ) plays an intrinsic role in occupant comfort, and should be evaluated as a key building performance indicator of early design phases.
Jan Drzymalla, Jannick Höper, Sven Eckers, Sebastian Theißen, Michaela Lambertz, Andreas Henne
Various field studies have shown that in a vast majority of European countries the quality of installed residential ventilation systems is poor, with a large proportion of systems having significantly lower installed flow rates
Arnold Janssens, Yanaika Decorte, Francois Durier, Peter Wouters
Building simulations are used to investigate building performance and design the building systems optimally.
Josué Borrajo Bastero, Jelle Laverge, Marc Delghust, Elisa Van Kenhove, Matthias Van Hove
Improving actual operation performance of room air conditioners (RAC) shows great importance in the indoor environment and building energy conversation.
Zixu Yang, Baolong Wang, Wenxing Shi, Xianting Li
Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) inactivates viral aerosols in indoor environments. Upper room UVGI systems use wall or ceiling mounted fixtures to create a disinfection zone above the occupied zone.
Youngbo Won, Donghyun Rim, Richard Mistrick, William Bahnfleth
In future building regulations, building performance is going to be extended to global performance, including indoor air quality (IAQ).
Baptiste Poirier, Gaëlle Guyot, Monika Woloszyn
For an ideal building airtightness test, the pressure difference between inside and outside would be constant over time and uniform along the entire building envelope, so that each leakage is equally considered and that the test
Nolwenn Hurel, Valérie Leprince
Trends in home heating and cooling in the US are resulting in less mixing of air within dwellings, either due to not using central forced air systems, or to reduced loads and runtimes in high performance homes.
Iain Walker, Brennan Less, David Lorenzetti, Michael Sohn
In the current era, sensors in buildings have become an essential requirement for wide applications such as monitoring indoor air quality (IAQ), thermal and environmental conditions, controlling building heating, ventilation, an
Salam Al Samman, Mahroo Eftekhari, Daniel Coakley, Charalampos Angelopoulos, Vanda Dimitriou
The fan pressurization method that is widely used to measure the airtightness of buildings is known to have quite large measurement error.
Christophe Y. M. Delmotte
Indoor air quality (IAQ) is influenced by several parameters and the sources of indoor air pollutants are numerous (building materials, occupant behavior, HVAC systems, Outdoor air, etc.).
Mohsen Pourkiaei, Claudia Falzone, Anne-Claude Romain
Hospitals’ indoor environmental quality (IEQ) impacts on patients’ comfort and well-being.
Sara Willems, Dirk Saelens, Ann Heylighen

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