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The 30th AIVC Conference, Trends in High Performance Buildings and the Role of Ventilation, was held in Berlin, Germany, 1-2 October 2009.

Contains 48 papers 

 

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Saving Heating and Cooling Energy by Sub-soil Conditioning of Supply Air at the German Museum of Technology

In 2003 the new extension of the German Museum of Technology (Deutsches Technikmuseum, Berlin), which comprises around 12,000 m?? of exhibition space was…

Johann Reiss, Hans Erhorn
Nocturnal natural ventilation for low and zero energy office buildings in Central Chile

Office buildings in central Chile normally show higher cooling than heating energy demand.Overheating is a frequent problem in this type of buildings in…

Waldo Bustamante Gómez, Elisabeth Gratia
Ventilation and low-income housing: a sensitive problem

It is well known that appropriate ventilation represents one of the prerequisites for achieving goodindoor comfort, and we try to ensure a continuous and…

M. Tomsic
Ventilation and particulate levels in dining halls

The dependence of the ventilation on the indoor particulate pollution is highlighted by numerousstudies. The aim of the present study is to examine the…

Margarita N. Assimakopoulos, Christos H. Halios, Mat Santamouris, Dafni Sfihtelli, Stathis Chrisafis
Air Distribution Effectiveness for Residential Mechanical Ventilation: Simulation and Comparison of Normalized Exposures

Even when providing the same nominal rate of outdoor air (OA), different ventilation systems distribute air in different ways, affecting the occupants…

T. Petithuguenin, M. H. Sherman
Emissions from Building Materials: Simulation of the Indoor Air Quality

The emission from materials is an important source of degradation of our indoor air quality. Toinvestigate this field, it is necessary to determine…

Samuel Caillou, Paul Van den Bossche, Luk Vandaele
Studying influence of airtightness on heating loads by coupling simplified simulation and multizone airflow model

In order to respond to global warming and natural resources depletion challenges, industrials from the building sector need to propose an adequate offer.…

M. Trocmé, B. Peuportier
MOS gas sensor technology for demand controlled ventilation

Due to increasing interest in indoor air quality and demand controlled ventilation in buildings aiming at energy and cost saving, as well as health and…

S. Herberger, M. Herold, H. Ulmer
Development of setting methods to control outdoor ventilation airflow rate in office buildings

Ventilation is essential for the health and comfort of building occupants. It is particularly required todilute and/or remove pollutants emitted by…

F. Richieri, T. Salem, P. Michel
Treatment of envelope airtightness in the EPB-regulations: some results of a survey in the IEE-ASIEPI project.

One of the topics studied in the European IEE-ASIEPI project (www.asiepi.eu) is the way envelopeairtightness is dealt…

F.-R. Carrié, A. Tilmans, D. Van Orshoven, P. D'Herdt, C. Mees, P. Wouters, G. Guyot, M.E. Spiekman
Ventilation in residential buildings: A comparison of different calculation methodologies in the context of the EPBD

The legal background for the assessment of the energy performance of buildings and energycertificates in Germany will be changed in October 2009. Beside the…

Simon Wössner, Jan de Boer and Hans Erhorn
Diffuse Ceiling Ventilation for Fresh Classrooms

In most Dutch classrooms draught results in insufficient ventilation and poor air quality during the heating season, adversely affecting the well being and…

P. Jacobs, B. Knoll
The Swedish Code of Statutes SFS 1991:1273, Compulsory Ventilation Checks to be Continued

Since 1991 has Sweden regulations on compulsory inspection of ventilation systems (OVK). Thereasons to issue these regulations were many studies on poor…

W. Rydholm
Distributed generation technologies for energy sustainability

This paper analyzes some important aspects toward changing energy paradigma in urban area.To that aim it is important to act synergically on three sides of…

P. Caputo, G. Costa
High performance schools: displacement ventilation an improvement?

Ventilation in schools is very important as it has a direct relation to health and performance of pupils.The status quo of school ventilation in the…

W. Zeiler, D.J.B.W. Schuiling, G. Boxem
Night-time ventilation cooling with latent heat storage

Passive cooling of buildings is one of the energy-saving measures that can be employed in climateswith predominantly sensible cooling loads. There are…

M. S. Janirek, P. Charvat, J. Stetina
The impact of cost-efficient measures on the performance of school buildings in South Africa - Two case studies

In 2005 the first Energy Efficiency Plan for South Africa was developed by the Department of Mineralsand Energy. This plan sets the target for energy…

Johannes Schrade, Simon Wössner and Hans Erhorn
'Ventilation and Building Envelopes in a Holistic Perspective : A plea for Fit For Purpose approach and Activating Design

A questionnaire presented to designers demonstrates the difficulty to explain the specific status, thestratification and the correlation of parameters,…

S. De Bruycker
Sustainable building rating systems and high performance buildings

The current rate of consumption across Europe is leading to environmental problems. We need toreduce our impact to nature - our ecological footprint - by…

W. Zeiler, J. Van Deursen
Experimental Evaluation of Ventilation Systems in a Single-Family Dwelling

The French regulation on residential building ventilation relies on an overall and continuous airrenewal. The fresh air should enter the building through…

Juslin Koffi, Francis Allard, Jean-Jacques Akoua
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