LoginThis study investigates the impact of lowering temperature setpoints on occupants' thermal comfort in office buildings, prompted by government initiatives in Europe, including the Netherlands, to reduce energy consumption.
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Elderly people residing in nursing homes spend a vast majority of their times indoors and often in common recreation areas, to allow for socialization and interaction. Elderly people are a vulnerable age group.
Since 2018, Renson has introduced a range of cloud-connected residential ventilation systems, including central and decentral mechanical extract ventilation (MEV), as well as fully mechanical systems with heat recovery (MVHR) (see Fig. 1).
The progressive digitalization is providing more and more measurement data from building operation, in particular from heating, cooling and ventilation (HVAC) systems.
Airtight, highly insulated, and passively cooled buildings in the EU are designed under typical outdoor and indoor thermal conditions.
Improving the knowledge on uncertainty for fan pressurization measurement is of first importance.
The content presented comes from the paper under review “Quantitative correlation between buildings air permeability indicators: statistical analyses of about 500,000 measurements” (Moujalled, 2023a).
Heatwaves are extreme events that will become more frequent and intense with climate change. Maintaining a comfortable and healthy indoor environment becomes crucial during these periods.
International Energy Agency (IEA) Annex 78 was launched in 2018.
Due to climate change, Western Europe is experiencing a surge in cooling demand, leading to higher summer temperatures accompanied by longer and stronger heat waves, thereby intensifying the toll on our buildings.
Comfort modelling is a critical scientific barrier to reaching better thermal satisfaction in buildings. It allows designers to combine different cooling systems better to target comfortable low-energy buildings in hot and tropical climates.
Due to its high demands regarding indoor environmental conditions, healthcare facilities are associated with high energy consumption.
Urban settings and climate change both impact energy use, thermal comfort and ventilation of buildings.
Indoor air pollution is a significant concern due to its adverse effects on human health and productivity.
In this work, we propose a method to couple the behaviour models developed with Python in a previous paper with the dynamic thermal simulation software EnergyPlus, an advanced code used in research and design.
This manuscript discusses the energy-saving benefits of gas-phase air cleaning in Nordic buildings. Ventilation systems are crucial in creating a healthy and comfortable indoor environment.
The future needs of indoor spaces in our buildings are likely to be cooling focused. With the widespread use of air-conditioning (AC) on the horizon there is now a need to ensure our systems perform as renewables (under the relevant definitions).
This article provides a summary of a comprehensive examination of the current ISO 9972 standard, focusing on the enhancements needed to improve its reliability and validity for airtightness tests in buildings.
Gas-phase air cleaners can be used to either reduce occupant dissatisfaction for the same outdoor air flow rate or to reduce the outdoor air flow rate for the same resulting occupant satisfaction based on its clean air delivery rate (CADR).
This paper investigates the impact of ventilative cooling in residential buildings constructed from light-weight cross-laminated timber.