The 26th AIVC Conference, Ventilation in relation to the energy performance of buildings, was held in Brussels, Belgium, 21- 23 September 2005.
Contains 52 papers
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The book of proceedings from the 26th AIVC Conference "Ventilation in relation to the energy performance of buildings", Brussels, Belgium, 21-23…
The 26th AIVC Annual Conference took place in Belgium at the Hotel Husa President Park, located in Brussels. Some 250 participants from 27…
The probabilistic model (PROMO) applied to the problem of air infiltration in low-rise buildings is presented. The PROMO model allows the estimation of the…
The hybrid ventilation systems have been widely used for livestock barns to provide optimum indoor climate by controlling the ventilation rate and air flow…
This work presents simulations results exploring the influence of the building air-tightness on the energy consumption of buildings for different hypothesis…
The performance of three different ventilation systems in cold climate homes is discussed. Comparisons are presented of monitored datasets by contrasting…
The design and realisation of natural ventilation systems is an important research topic into the ability of buildings to respond to climatic conditions,…
This paper investigates the sensitivity of indoor humidity models to the numerical description of water vapour buffering in porous materials in the room.…
High levels of indoor relative humidity are one of the main causes of moisture damage in buildings. That cause can be removed by an appropriate ventilation…
The paper presents a study of the indoor climate of a monumental building with periodic high indoor moisture loads. Several scenarios of the past…
Studies on air circulation became of great importance in recent years, since are crucial for the energy consumption of buildings, for the pollutant…
An earth-air heat exchanger (EAHX) has been implemented in a low-energy office building in Kortrijk,Belgium. An extensive monitoring campaign was conducted…
Direct expansion (DX) air conditioning (A/C) systems are most commonly used in residential buildings in hot and humid subtropics. They are normally equipped…
Industry-wide methods of assessing duct leakage are based on duct pressurization tests, and focus on highpressure ducts. Even though low pressure ducts can…
This paper presents the results of a field study conducted on 31 houses owned by a French social housing management body. The central objective of our…
This paper presents an analysis of energy and comfort performance of typical office buildings for summer cooling in five climate zones in China using the…
The Zero Energy Manufactured Home Project demonstrates and promotes innovative energy saving technologies to the manufactured housing industry and home…
Ventilation in buildings is necessary first for hygienic reasons and also to preserve the building structure. This is more essential, today, because the…
Currently, various studies have demonstrated some doubt about the accuracy of the orifice equation when applied to the calculation of cross-ventilation. As…
At the conceptual design stage, one needs to pay considerable attention to both the energy as well as indoor air quality (IAQ) requirements. Often,…