LoginThe scientific literature offers a number of methods for assessing the likelihood of overheating in buildings.
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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In the absence of thermal comfort standards in India, architects and designers have no choice, except to provide air conditioning to meet thermal comfort criteria for achieving green building rating for their projects and thus end up using more en
The project is a design for a mixed mode system using either cross flow or stack effect natural ventilation with ceiling mounted fan coil units, in the 42,000m2 British International College campus in Yangon, Myanmar, designed by Tangram Architect
Ceiling fans recirculate air within a space and affects the comfort of the occupant. It is widely used in India. It reduces the perceived temperatures by assisting cooling by evaporation through skin.
In the frame of a multi-year EU project, the set of European Standards from 2006/7 to support the European Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) is undergoing a revision. The majority of the standards describe calculation methods.
Simulations were conducted to optimize the design of a small building with walls constructed of limestonefilled gabion baskets.
Appropriate building design for natural ventilation can reduce discomfort, while saving energy on airconditioning.
Diffuse ceiling ventilation uses perforations in the suspended ceiling to deliver air into the occupied zone. Due to the complex geometry of the diffuser, it is not possible to build an exact geometrical model in CFD simulation.
Building form is one of the most critical factors influencing natural ventilation potential in an urban context, and thus has a significant impact on building energy consumption.
The benefits and limitations of time-dependent and steady state computational fluid dynamics simulations when evaluating natural ventilation were explored in a naturally ventilated case study apartment in the Mediterranean.
Minimum levels of attic ventilation have been required by residential building codes in the United States for years, but the precise attic temperature reductions of “poking holes in the roof” and corresponding energy impacts have rarely been robus
This study prepares a list of articles on the CFD analyses of room air flow in the architecture field in Japan, and compiles information related to CFD analysis conditions described in each article.
This study investigates the effect of modeling the slatted floor as porous media on prediction of ammonia emissions and airflow patterns.
Mixed mode ventilation is an effective way to reduce energy consumption as well as improve thermal comfort.
Contamination distributions were calculated and evaluated by contamination area ratio at respiration height for actual smoking rooms. As a result, 1) Dust contamination area ratio is about 20 % for required ventilation volume by Guidelines.
Occupant behavior is a major contributing factor to building energy consumption.
The integration of two technologies - the Airconditioning Duct System and Optical Mirror Duct System - into a new energy-saving system “Integrated Optical Air Duct System” (IOAD) significantly reduces the lighting energy, which accounts for roughl
In some areas of high air condition adoption there is potential for night purge natural ventilation to reduce the number of hours that the air condition system is operated, leading to a reduction in energy usage and associated carbon dioxide emiss
In this paper, possibilities of electric peak load reductions in the MENA-Region, using a photovoltaic powered air conditioning system for residential buildings, are considered.
This paper introduces a longitudinal study monitoring occupants’ window opening behaviour in a mixed-mode office building in Beijing, China, when natural ventilation is specifically used for controlling the building’s indoor thermal environment.