LoginA summary of environmental investigations carried out from 1992 to 2002 in Italian schools in operation by the ISPESL is provided in this article.
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After the moisture damage repairs, a health symptom questionnaire study was repeated 1 year, 3 years and 5 years on 245 upper secondary and high school students. The data were analyzed.
Ventilation has two functions : a universal role to assure air renovation and bring fresh air into spaces and the role of energy carrier for heating or cooling. In so far as air is always needed, it was used for both functions.
The integration of ventilation strategies into building design is the responsability of the architect that will consult design offices for a right quantification of those strategies.
This project lasted from February 1998 to January 2001.
The second part of the VIP Indoor air pollutants concerns the sources of pollutants and effective measures to control them or to make their impact on occupants less severe.
This study shows the possiblity of improving indoor air quality thanks to underfloor ventilation systems. The top-return configuration and the floor-return one are tested and compared to a traditional ceililng based mixing system.
The aim of that study was to test the impact of cleaning on indoor environement quality. Surface dust measurements were made on samples taken from office rooms before and after cleaning during the heating period of the buildings.
This study surveyed concentrations of airborne AP (alkyphenols) in indoor air and outdoor air in Tokyo. An analytical method has been developed using the gas chromatography/mass spectrometry-SIM.
This paper presents the results of a study that explored if higher indoor minus outdoor CO2 concentrations were associated with increased student absence. The results of multivariate analyses are presented.
This paper sums up a longitudinal study carried out on a group of students and teachers in a remediated moisture-damaged school. Registration of subjective data (questionnaires) and objective data (nasal histamine reactivity) has been made.
324 microenvironmental measurements were carried out with identical protocols on 81 elementary teachers working in 2 cities in eastern Finland.
Airflow characteristics in ventilated and air-conditioned spaces play an important role to attain comfort and hygiene conditions.
Numerical prediction method in vehicle by using a thermoregulation model and CFD is described here.
The thermal environment and air quality in buildings affects occupants’ health, comfort and performance. The heating, ventilating and air-conditioning (HVAC) of buildings today is designed to provide a uniform room environment.
A 2x2 balanced experiment was carried out in an air-conditioned call center in the Tropics using a blind intervention approach to study the combined effects of temperature and outdoor air supply rate.
The objective of this work is to evaluate the human thermal response in occupied spaces subjected to direct solar radiation.
In order to accurately design and analyze demand controlled volume ventilation systems, theoccupancy level in the room must be known. The occupancy level corresponds to the length of time people occupy a room.
Numerical experiments by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation were done toinvestigate air distribution in displacement ventilated rooms with a moving person, which affects thermal stratification of indoor air required for controlling and
The quantitative knowledge gained from the assessment of particle deposition in ducts is importantto study, for example, the elimination of air leakage from duct systems with aerosolized sealant particles or to implement strategies of cleanliness