LoginThis paper investigates the sensitivity of indoor humidity models to the numerical description of water vapour buffering in porous materials in the room.
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High levels of indoor relative humidity are one of the main causes of moisture damage in buildings. That cause can be removed by an appropriate ventilation system.
The paper presents a study of the indoor climate of a monumental building with periodic high indoor moisture loads. Several scenarios of the past performance and new control classes are simulated and evaluated.
Studies on air circulation became of great importance in recent years, since are crucial for the energy consumption of buildings, for the pollutant dispersion within cities and for the good comfort conditions for the pedestrians and the habitants.
The probabilistic model (PROMO) applied to the problem of air infiltration in low-rise buildings is presented. The PROMO model allows the estimation of the effect of variations of climaticconditions on air exchange in a building.
The hybrid ventilation systems have been widely used for livestock barns to provide optimum indoor climate by controlling the ventilation rate and air flow distribution within the ventilated building structure.
This work presents simulations results exploring the influence of the building air-tightness on the energy consumption of buildings for different hypothesis on the type of ventilation system.
The performance of three different ventilation systems in cold climate homes is discussed.
The design and realisation of natural ventilation systems is an important research topic into the ability of buildings to respond to climatic conditions, using parts of the buildings themselves as indoor microclimate control systems.
Mechanical ventilation may be necessary to provide adequate ventilation in new houses due to the relatively low rates of infiltration achieved in new construction.
Indoor air quality (IAQ) in new houses, particularly occupant's inhalation exposure to toxic, irritant and odorous chemicals, has received comparatively little attention among house builders and product manufacturers.
In this work, the cooling performance of night ventilation systems and different earth heat exchangetechnologies were experimentally analysed in three office buildings in Southern Germany.
The UK construction industry is beginning to take notice of Post Occupancy Evaluations (POE) of completed buildings.
The purpose of this paper is to provide a multicriteria approach in order to develop and assess several control methods for hybrid ventilation.
During the past few years, the research team of the University of Michigan has developed techniques to solve problems associated with designing a performance evaluation tool environment.
This paper presents some results of the research project "Domestic Violence and Architectural Space", sponsored by several Mexican Governmental Offices and Citizen Organizations.
The potential for prediction error when using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for investigating internal building airflows is assessed in the current paper.
To evaluate wind pressure distribution on a building by using CFD (computational fluid dynamics), it has been general practice to use k-e models.
A model has been proposed for evaluating the discharge coefficient according to the flow angle at an inflow opening for cross-ventilation.
This document proposes a classification of the concepts of ventilated double facades, also referred to hereafter in this document as "VDF".