LoginThat study aimed at testing the following hypothesis : a low-ventilation rate in Swedish homes brings an increased prevalence of asthma and allergic symptoms among children. A passive tracer gas method was used to measure ventilation rates.
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In this article, the description of of results of a different monitoring technique that consists in a continuous, unobtrusive monitoring of air-quality at 20 second intervals in 85 rooms of eight different Minnesota schools.
The standard 62.1 prescribes new minimum breathing zone ventilation rates . It also clarifies the calculation procedures required by standard 62.
The author has conducted an indoor/outdoor air quality study in Delaware before and after the enactment of Delaware 's clean indoor air law that banned smoking in all restaurants, bars and casinos.
Commercial buildings in North America are generally inadequately constructed and are therefore quite leaky. Uncontrolled air leakage increases the heating and cooling energy consumption (up to 40 %)..
This article presents the results of a US department of energy's building technologies program whose aim is to create technologies for low-cost-near-zero energy residences equipped with geothermal or dehumidifying heat pump, insulated panels
The design of "simple" ventilation systems in compliance with Standard 62-2001 Addentum 62n requirements has already been discussed in articles.
This paper, after a general presentation of what indoor air quality is, discusses the development of new methods for the improvements of IAQ in maintaining or decreasing ventilation and energy use.
How much do we really know about ventilation ?It is admitted that for a good indoor air quality in a building, the amount of outdoor air ventilation is one of the most important determinants , but many critical questions and misunderstandings exi
The aim of that study was to observe if a 25-30% reduction of outdoor ventilation flow, during heating season, influenced the perception of the indoor environment.
Low humidity in the aircraft cabin environment appears to be a possible cause of symptoms experienced during long flights.
For that study an aircraft cabin with realistic pollution sources was built inside a climate chamber to determine the extent to which passengers’ perception of cabin air quality is affected by air temperature.
This article deals with the effect of a photocatalytic air purifier on perceived air quality tested in rooms polluted by typical indoor pollution sources. The rooms were ventilated at three different outdoor air supply rates.
In the aim of investigating the thermal environment and thermal comfort in residential buildings in Harbin, northeast of China, a field study was performed on a total of 120 participants during the 2000-2001 winter.
Indoor air quality (IAQ), is one of the key determinants of the acceptability of indoor environments.
Subjective experiments were conducted to investigate the effect of three different types of Task air-conditioning systems (3DU+, PEM, and TU) on thermal comfort in a climate chamber - conditioned at 28C/50%RH with task systems and 26C/50%RH witho
For that study, experiments were carried out to evaluate thermal comfort in highly airtight and insulated rooms, where floor heaters and air-conditioners were installed.
In this paper, thanks to the method of numerical simulation, the influence of building factors on indoor thermal environment of natural ventilated building is analysed .
The need of cooling schools in Scandinavia is only for a short period of time .The ventilation system often cannot provide the necessary cooling without causing draught.
This paper provides on the one hand data for the improvement of indoor environment in existing high-rise residential buildings in hot summer and cold winter region of China, and on the other hand helps for the designing of HVAC system of such bu