The 24th AIVC and BETEC Conference, Ventilation, Humidity control and energy, was held in Washington D.C., USA, 12- 14 October 2003.
Contains 56 papers
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To better quantify the impact of different window opening models in comparison to ventilation techniques a multizone ventilation model, incorporating the…
This paper is a keynote address presented at Ventilation, Humidity Control and Energy 24th AIVC Conference.It is a warning for HVAC professionals that are…
A concept is investigated for the energy efficient control of residential mechanical ventilation in response to outdoor air temperature and the…
A manufactured home has been installed on the NIST campus for ventilation, energy andindoor air quality studies. The primary purposes of the facility are to…
This is a personal set of comments giving the author's impressions of the papers presented at the conference. A great concern of him is the difference…
In France, ventilation in new residential buildings must be designed and dimensioned according to the Health regulation (Arrêté du 24 mars 1982) which is…
There is research acknowledging that the home environment may be responsible for worsening respiratory conditions, especially for children. The indoor…
Carbon-dioxide (CO2) based demand controlled ventilation (DCV) offers the potential for moreenergy efficient building ventilation compared with constant…
Cavity wall is often proposed in the building envelope design as a solution for improving the thermal comfort of the inhabitants and reducing the adverse…
In France, most of the public project managers have collective dwellings built in the 70’s 80’s with first generation mechanical ventilation systems. These…
The thermal performance of a monozone building located in Lisbon is studied when night ventilation combined with radiative cooling is used in order to…
In moderate climates, adventitious ventilation helps in keeping the water vapor balance in a building under control. This does not hold in hot and humid…
Passive cooling strategies require strict adherence to the physical world. Ones imagination creates the flow of ideas that can blossom into a comfortable…
For historical and demographical reasons, in many European countries, an important part of educational building must be retrofitted. These retrofitting must…
Single- and double-section manufactured homes were instrumented in 2001-2003 to measure continuous energy usage and air infiltration with respect to the…
Twenty homes were tested and monitored in Houston, Texas, U.S.A. to evaluate humidity controlperformance and operating cost of six different integrated…
Many recently developed energy-reducing strategies with respect to heat loads in residential interiorsincluded in simulation programs possess extensive…
The most efficient ventilation system would only operate on demand, when ventilation was "needed". Running the ventilation system all the time at a low flow…
In order to facilitate nationwide analysis of ventilation and indoor air quality issues in residential buildings, a set of homes has been defined to…
The control industry integrates more and more recent innovations, especially on the sector of communication networks (bus), control (fuzzy logic, neural…