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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Durability of airtightness – and more generally of thermal performances – is an important question at both building and component levels.
Martin Prignon
The DURABILITAIR project, conducted from 2016 to 2019, aimed to assess the durability of air sealing products used in building envelopes.
Andrés Litvak, Eddy Handschoewercker Sylvain Berthault, Romain Mathieu
Ensuring the airtightness of building envelopes is crucial for enhancing the energy efficiency of buildings. The prompt detection of leaks is essential, particularly when undertaking building renovations.
Markus Diel, Björn Schiricke, Johannes Pernpeintner
The field of building ventilation and indoor air quality (IAQ) often employs indoor CO2 concentrations as an indicator of outdoor air ventilation rates and, in some cases, as a contaminant impacting human health and comfort.
Oluwatobi Oke, Andrew Persily
Controlling air infiltration is crucial to ensure thermal comfort, optimal performance of ventilation systems, and the overall energy efficiency of buildings.
Diego Tamayo-Alonso, Irene Poza-Casado, M.Á. Padilla-Marcos, Lida Mercado, Alberto Meiss
Adaptive comfort technology is reflecting the fact that the human body adapts to changing temperatures.
Bart Cremers
The ingress of naturally occurring radioactive radon gas from the soil into buildings can occur both by convection through any openings in the foundations as a result of pressure differentials and by diffusion across an airtight
Liang Grace Zhou, Yunyi Ethan Li, Janet Gaskin, Patrique Tardif
The context of climate change and the need of saving energy has required rethinking the ventilation and the air change rates in buildings, because of their increased impact on thermal losses.
Gaëlle Guyot, Valérie Leprince
Air and airborne contaminant mixing in building spaces is important to ventilation system design and performance, tracer gas measurements of ventilation rates, and occupant exposure to indoor pollutants.
Andrew Persily
Improving the energy efficiency of buildings and the quality of indoor air requires accurate assessments of airtightness.
Benedikt Kölsch, Valérie Leprince
In France, the regulation context for ventilation is based on the decree « Arreté de 1982 » which is a prescriptive regulation, requiring extracted flowrate in every utility room.
Valérie Leprince, Baptiste Poirier
The EIA EBC Annex 80 Resilient Cooling program has focused on bringing together and extending the knowledge on the resilience of buildings to overheating (Holzer, 2024).  In the context of the Annex 80 Resilient Cooling program
Joost Declercq, Martijn Holvoet
Project RESILIENCE set out to examine overheating risk in a variety of non-residential building archetypes, but also examined several aspects of both overheating risk metrics and indoor thermal resilience evaluation criteria.
Paul D. O’Sullivan, Adam O’ Donovan
The protection from chronic harm provided by exposure limit values (ELVs) is evaluated for indoor air contaminants set by regulatory bodies of member countries in the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (AIVC).
Benjamin Jones, Giobertti Morantes, Constanza Molina, Max Sherman, James A. McGrath
The WTA-Leaflets (International Association for Science and Technology of Building Maintenance and Monuments Preservation", (WTA)) provide recommendations on how a defined quality of building airtightness can be achieved when re
Stefanie Rolfsmeier
In Spain, the construction sector has undergone significant changes over the last twenty years due to new ventilation standards driven by increased awareness of indoor air quality (IAQ) and energy efficiency, as well as environm
Pilar Linares-Alemparte, Sonia García-Ortega, Fernando Feldman
Buildings energy renovation is a major priority in most European countries in order to achieve a fully decarbonized building stock by 2050.
Imane Mannan, Adeline Mélois, Bassam Moujalled, Luke Smith, Christopher Wood, Xiaofeng Zheng
This study aims to evaluate airborne cross-infection risk under different discharge angle (-20°, 0°, and +20°) and supply temperatures (18, 25, and 30 °C) of an air-conditioner, with various body orientations (face-to-face, side
Hee Won Shin, Hyun Wook Park, Jae Hyun Park, Dong Hwa Kang
The commitment to improving the energy efficiency of buildings by 2030, with the goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, has been triggered by environmental challenges and the increasing scarcity of energy resources.
Debora Resta, Bert Lemmens, Hilde Breesch, Abantika Sengupta, Douaa Al-assaad, Steven Delrue, Joost Declercq, Marijke Steeman
Building ventilation and retrofitting strategies for homes can bring multiple benefits in the context of achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by reducing carbon emissions in the building sector.
Constanza Molina

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