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The 31st AIVC Conference - Low Energy and Sustainable Ventilation Technologies for Green Buildings, was held in Seoul, Korea, 26-28 October 2010.

Contains 80 papers.

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Experimental Evaluation of the Moisture Buffering Effect of Hygrothermal Material

Residential buildings newly constructed in Japan are well insulated and airtight for energy conservation. However, the indoor environment of these houses…

Hiroaki Suzuki, Hiroshi Yoshino, Kenichi Hasegawa, Huibo Zhang and Ayaka Iwata
Energy Requirements of a Multi-Sensor Based Demand Control Ventilation System In Residential Buildings

In Korea, in 2006, the building regulation was revised to apply 0.7 ACH (Air Change Rate) ventilation systems to improve indoor air quality in residential…

Nam Chul Seong, Sung Min Hong, Dong Won Yoon
Robustness and True Performance of Demand Controlled Ventilation in Educational Buildings – Review and Needs for Future Development

Although theoretical studies show that energy use for ventilation purposes can be reduced by more than 50% with DCV compared to CAV, evaluation of real…

Mads Mysen, Peter Schild, Finn Drangsholt
The climatic potential for a double skin facade integrated with cross ventilation

When it comes to natural ventilation performance for large space cooling during summer time or intermediate seasons, double skin facade(DSF) integrated with…

Won-Jun Choi, Jae-Wan Joe and Jung-Ho Huh
Building simulation on utilization of roof window in detached house by using cross-ventilation

The effects of roof window on ventilation flow rates and reduction of cooling loads in densely populated areas were investigated by using building…

Masaaki Ohba, Kenji Tsukamoto, Takashi Kurabuchi and Toshihiro Nonaka
Velocity Measurement Inside and Outside a Cross-Ventilated Building by Means of PIV

Cross-ventilation is regarded to be beneficial control method to obtain thermal comfort in a hot summer without using mechanical devices. Since it is…

Hisashi Kotani, Tomohiro Kobayashi, Kaori Asai, Yasue Tanaka, and Yasuhiro Shiozaki
Analysis on CO2 Emissions Reduction Effect of Zero Energy Multi-famiy Housing to cope with UNFCCC

Korean government established a target to reduce greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions to 30% by 2020 to cope with the United Nations Framework Convention on…

Yong-Sang Yoon, Sun-Hye Mun
Development of Infiltration Modeling Parameters for a SIPs Building

Reduction of infiltration in the Equinox House, a residence under construction in Urbana Illinois, has been characterized through a series of blower tests…

Ty Newell, and Paul W. Francisco
Effective flow area estimation method using a gas

The objective of this paper is to present a new method for estimating effective flow areas not only in the external wall of a house but also in the internal…

Koji Fujita, Ken Iwamoto, and Takayuki Matsushita
Ventilation and RH control in museum showcases

Museum showcases represent a peculiar confined space were ventilation and indoor climate conditions play an important role. Conservation of the works of…

Marco Perino and Chiara Bonvicini
Implementation of measurement and quality frameworks in the French regulation for achieving airtight envelopes

It is foreseen that the 2012 version of the French regulation will include a minimum requirement for the envelope airtightness of residential buildings,…

F.R. Carrié, S. Charrier, V. Leprince
Influence of natural ventilation usage on cooling energy consumption and cooling capacity of an air conditioner

In Japan, natural ventilation through large openings has been used for cooling in summer and medium season. However, air conditioner has become popular…

Hiromi Habara, Shigeki Nishizawa, Hisashi Miura, Akinori Hosoi, and Takao Sawachi
The influence of stochastic modeling of window actions on simulated summer comfort in office buildings

In this study, an attempt is made to define building design variables for a medium-sized office building with individual office cells in order to provide…

Wout Parys, Dirk Saelens, Hugo Hens
Fungal Growth Prediction on Building Materials by Reaction-Diffusion Model Coupled with Heat and Moisture transfer

A mathematical model that reproduces fungal proliferation and morphological colony formation was developed on the basis of a reaction diffusion modeling…

Kazuhide Ito
Modularizing and Validating CFD Parts of Four-way Cassette Type Outlets

In this paper, we created the CFD parts of four-way cassette type outlets for predicting easily the thermal environment of an office with packaged unit air-…

Hidekazu Tanaka, Masashi Imano, Yuzo Sakamoto
Solar Greenhouse and natural ventilation

The paper presents a study on the thermal behavior of a solar greenhouse set against one apartment of a residential eco-sustainable building in a temperate…

Elena Bigelli, Luca Guardigli, Debora Venturi
Modelling wind driven airflow rate with CFD and verification of approximation formulas based on wind pressure coefficients

An isothermal CFD study was made of a building perpendicular to the wind direction. The building was modelled with a closed façade, and consecutively with…

S. Leenknegt, B. Piret, A. Tablada de la Torre, D. Saelens
Development of Zonal Model for Predicting Temperature Distribution inside an Office Room with Hybrid Air-conditioning System

Recently, the hybrid air-conditioning system that used natural ventilation together with a mechanical air-conditioning was proposed. Hybrid air conditioning…

Eunsu Lim, Toshio Yamanaka
Effect of Intermittent Operation of Ventilation System on Indoor Air Quality in Apartments

This study analyzed the effect of intermittent operation of ventilation system on changes of indoor air pollutants' levels through field measurements. The…

Cheol-woong Shin, Hyung-Jun Kim, Jun-seok Park
Influence of the Configuration of Consecutive Street Canyons and Atmospheric Stability

This research, based on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis, focuses on the wind characteristics and the ventilation performance in the consecutive…

Byoungchull Oh, Ryozo Ooka, Takeaki Katsuki and Hideki Kikumoto
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