LoginNowadays, 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.
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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How accurately can reduced-order dynamic building energy simulation models (with Dymola simulation software) simulate the indoor climate (i.e., indoor air temperature, relative humidity and CO2-concentration) in common inhabited
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
Unintended airflow through building envelopes leads to an increased demand in heating and cooling energy.
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.
In order to reduce the primary energy consumption of buildings, highly efficient heat recovery of the HVAC system is indispensable.
Unintended Infiltration in buildings is responsible for a significant portion of the global housing stock energy demand.
Worldwide concern has been focused on the airborne disease of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The fan pressurization method that is widely used to measure the airtightness of buildings is known to have quite large measurement error.
This paper describes the ongoing development of a new tracer gas test (TGT) for total air change rates measurement.
Building simulations are used to investigate building performance and design the building systems optimally.
Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems attempt to achieve a uniform indoor environment.
Many recent studies have been reported that the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) can spread through an airborne transmission route.
In future building regulations, building performance is going to be extended to global performance, including indoor air quality (IAQ).
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.
The means for keeping the indoor relative humidity (RH) and pollutant concentration below a threshold level of interests are necessary and essential to improving building performance in terms of indoor air quality (IAQ), energy
Climate control of cabin aircraft is traditionally conditioned as a single unit by the environmental control system.
The ongoing covid-19 pandemic has drawn the attention on the importance of providing adequate fresh air to the occupants of the built environment, in particular in educational buildings.
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