LoginIn Belgium, the requirements for ventilation in buildings can be found in national ventilation standards, national health regulation and in regional environmental regulations and EPB regulations (Energy Performance and Indoor Cl
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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Ensuring thermal comfort in air traffic control towers (ATCTs) is paramount, given the exacting demands of air traffic control, which require heightened levels of concentration and vigilance.
This work quantifies the chronic harm caused by long-term exposure to common indoor air contaminants in dwellings located in the global north. Two methods are used to compute DALYs.
Improving air quality in existing classrooms can be difficult if retrofitting a mechanical ventilation system is considered too expensive or cannot be implemented due to other reasons, e.g., heritage protection.
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
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
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant emphasis on improving indoor air quality (IAQ), particularly within hospital buildings.
This study focuses on the impact of filtration efficiency level and airflow control, based on CO2, on indoor air quality described by particle concentration in an urban low energy consumption nursery school during an autumn and a winter period.
The main purpose of this study is to analyse the effects of heat gain, airflow rate, air distribution, and the location of an infector on the airborne transmission and infection probability in a meeting room.
Buildings energy renovation is a major priority in most European countries in order to achieve a fully decarbonized building stock by 2050.
This keynote presented the new government guidance on the health risks of damp and mould for the housing sector in England.
The inclusion of health-based performance indicators and metrics in ventilation system design and research is a widely discussed topic in recent years.
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
The global demand to improve the energy performance of buildings has led to greater air tightness and uncertainty in the ability of natural ventilation to maintain adequate indoor environmental quality.
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.
A discussion on the political and economic challenges of renovating our building stock, as well as the opportunity that the Recast Energy Performance of Buildings Directive offers to building owners and occupiers as well as to i
Children spend about 80-90% of their time indoors, making the quality of indoor environments (IEQ) crucial, particularly since children are more susceptible to pollutants due to their developing bodies and higher relative air in
The project aims to investigate the degree of influence that outdoor conditions may have on the indoor environment in Norwegian schools.
There is an increasing need to consider and evaluate the effect of existing ambient warmness on current low energy buildings to determine if current guidelines and standards are robust or resilient in the face of projected futur
Efforts must be made to promote the use of efficient ventilation systems in buildings with the aim of reducing energy demand, as ventilation is a major source of energy loss.