LoginCase studies provide essential evidence about the performance of buildings. They also illustrate the methods by which a technology can be implemented as well as highlighting problems.
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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The authors outline the knowledge they have gained through their design experience on the efficacy of natural ventilation in non-residential buildings in Japan.
Thermal mass, including the building envelope, the interior partition, the furnishing, or even the air inside building, is defined as the mass that can store thermal energy (heat or cooling energy).
Passive cooling by cross-ventilation has been considered to be a key technology for reducing cooling requirements.
Cross ventilation is one of the most important techniques for achieving energy conservation and for
Wind-induced cross ventilation is one of the key technologies for saving energy while controlling the indoor environment, and seems to be a crucial element of any sustainable building policy.
Even if there is only one opening within a room and there is no temperature difference between the inside outside, the room will be ventilated by the external natural wind.
This paper presents an experimental and numerical analysis of building cooling using night-time coldaccumulation in phase change material (PCM), otherwise known as the free-cooling or passive-cooling principle.
Traditional naturally ventilated houses are not designed for active thermal control.
Five fire scenarios have been simulated with the CFD model Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) to analyse the performance-based fire safety design of a 2935 m-long railway tunnel.
Ventilation characteristics of the Columbus module are numerically predicted on the basis of the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) and Large Eddy Simulation (LES) approaches.
The objective of heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems is to satisfy users when it comes to health, indoor air quality (IAQ), and thermal comfort.
This paper reports on tracer gas measurements of the ventilation flow within a low-energy building.Constant-concentration, decay and homogenous tracer gas emission methods were used.
The transmission of SARS in high rise residential buildings in Hong Kong has highlighted the importance of indoor environmental quality. One of the important parameters that requires investigation is natural ventilation.
This paper presents an assessment of indoor air quality and various ventilation strategies inside a school building located in the south of Portugal. In the first phase, ventilation rate was experimentally evaluated using the tracer gas method.
Gas phase filters have been installed within the air handling unit of an HVAC system feeding 100 %fresh (outdoor) air to an office building.
Since the energy-crisis of the 70’ies, the trend goes to energy-saving constructions, that have strongly changed our way of building.
Regular maintenance, such as the cleaning of filters, is important for the efficient operation ofresidential ventilation systems.
The paper evaluates the potential work performance benefits of increased ventilation. We analysed the literature relating work performance with ventilation rate and employed statistical analyses.
In this study the question whether or not and to what extend ventilation and air cleaning can contribute to the reduction of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke in the hospitality industry is answered.