LoginOn the base of universally valid laws: energy conservation and the theorem of Fourier, the dynamic behavior of a room is traced back to only two most important parameters.
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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Vertical solar-air collectors that are used for providing natural ventilation can be a viable solution in buildings where higher ventilation rate requirements for better indoor air quality cannot be met by traditional natural ventilation methods.
Passive cooling techniques driven purely by natural wind forces present a highly attractive environmental solution in the perspective of low energy architecture.
This paper describes synthetically the work carried out by the Polytechnic University of Turin within the CE-funded .Research project PRECiS, aimed at valuating the effect of urban form on heating and cooling energy saving potential.
The cross-sectional questionnaire-based study was conducted in spring 1998 among indoor workers of 6 buildings in town Tartu, Estonia.
On a morning of July 1999, the lawn of a rural medical facility was sprayed with an organophosphate (Chlorpyrifos) without any warning to staff and patients.
VOC emissions from building materials are assumed to cause irritation of eye and the upper airways (sensory irritation, SI) in the indoor environment.
Numerous scientific studies show that indoors are the source of potentially harmful substances called indoor air pollutants. They come from various sources.
This paper describes research on the extremely low frequency (ELF) end of the electromagnetic spectrum from VDUs, because this is very close to the frequencies of the brain when it is concentrating.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has collected extensive indoor air quality data in 100 randomly selected office buildings following a standardized protocol developed for the Building Assessment Survey and Evaluation (BASE)
An intervention study in eleven schools with approximately 1000 children age twelve to thirteen has been carried out in the period 1997 to 1999.
Repeated measurements were taken in a printers' office where one case of humidifier lung disease had occurred.
The association of moisture damages of school buildings with microbial indoor air quality and health status of school children was studied.
The aim of the study was to follow changes in allergens and airborne particles in the indoor environment during the first year in a newly started school.
Measurements of VOC, formaldehyde, temperature, relative humidity, ventilation and inspections of humidity related problems were made in 178 randomly selected Swedish dwellings.
This case study conducted in a new air-conditioned building in Singapore was aimed at identifying, and assessing indoor levels of VOCs using a GC-MS method. The study identified 80 different compounds with Toluene appearing in all locations.
The objective of this paper was to verify that problem of indoor air pollution is present in primary school in Yugoslavia.
We try to compare an environment in different types of hospitals. The University Hospital iD. Prague is located in the centre of the town in historical buildings.