LoginIndoor air quality (IAQ) plays an intrinsic role in occupant comfort, and should be evaluated as a key building performance indicator of early design phases.
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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BIM-integrated Indoor Aerosol Modeling Based On Outdoor Particles In Germany | 2023 | English | 8 pp
The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) is in Boulder, Colorado USA at 5280 feet above sea level.
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.
Industrial kitchens have high HVAC load requirements due to high exhaust rates from hoods. Especially in cold climates to heat the makeup air in winter requires high initial and - more importantly - high operating costs.
Worldwide concern has been focused on the airborne disease of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Climate control of cabin aircraft is traditionally conditioned as a single unit by the environmental control system.
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.
Maintaining thermal comfort in buildings has become a big challenge in developing countries.
Unintended Infiltration in buildings is responsible for a significant portion of the global housing stock energy demand.
Indoor air quality (IAQ) control in educative centres, where students spend most of their time, is essential.
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.).
The occupants’ satisfaction with the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) of a building is a key factor to determine if the indoor climate can be considered as acceptable.
Due to the negative effects of Particulate Matter exposure, more and more inexpensive optical aerosol spectrometers and photometers (low-cost PM sensors) are coming to the market, which are often used to monitor air quality.
Unintended airflow through building envelopes leads to an increased demand in heating and cooling energy.
Our planet is rapidly urbanizing, leading to significant biodiversity loss.
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.
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
In future building regulations, building performance is going to be extended to global performance, including indoor air quality (IAQ).
In order to reduce the primary energy consumption of buildings, highly efficient heat recovery of the HVAC system is indispensable.
The fan pressurization method that is widely used to measure the airtightness of buildings is known to have quite large measurement error.