Bibliographic database Airbase

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.

Access to the publications is free of charge.

Developing assumptions of metabolic rate estimation for primary school children in the calculation of the Fanger PMV model

Metabolic heat production is one of the key parameters in maintaining the body’s heat balance with the environment.

Shamila Haddad, Paul Osmond, Steve King, Shahin Heidari
A coupled summer thermal comfort and indoor air quality model of urban high-rise housing

The synergistic effects between summertime ventilation behaviour, indoor temperature and air pollutant concentration in relation to energy retrofit and climate change have been under-investigated t

Anna Mavrogianni, Jonathon Taylor, Chrysoula Thoua, Michael Davies, John Kolm-Murray
Comfort temperature and the adaptive use of environmental controls in offices in Japan

Japan’s energy perspective underwent a paradigm shift after the 2011 earthquake. It put in place the ‘setsuden’ (energy saving) campaign.

Ryozo Ooka, Madhavi Indraganti and Hom B Rijal
Thermal comfort in primary schools: a field study in Chile

This paper presents the first results of a field study on thermal comfort in school buildings that is been carried out in Chile, with the aim of determining comfort temperature of students in state

Maureen Trebilcock, Jaime Soto and Rodrigo Figueroa
The relation between the thermoneutral zone and thermal comfort zone - Determination of the thermoneutral zone and the influence on thermal behaviour

The thermoneutral zone (TNZ) reflects the range of ambient temperatures where no regulatory changes in metabolic heat production or evaporative heat loss occur.

Lisje Schellen, Hannah Pallubinsky and Wouter van Marken Lichtenbelt
User friendliness and building automation - A conceptual approach to understanding perceived control

Building automation systems provide potential to optimise the energy consumption of buildings as well as to detect failures in the operation of buildings.

Runa T. Hellwig
Tracking hand movement in an infrared image

The skin temperature and thermal comfort are closely related and change in skin temperature can predict thermal discomfort even before it is consciously perceived.

M. Veselý, W. Zeiler
Applying contextual understanding in mixed mode design: a usercentred study of thermal comfort and adaptive control

In achieving low-energy operation, occupant-controlled mixed mode buildings rely as much on the judicious use of active climate control by occupants as they do on the efficiency of the building ser

Kathryn Healey
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