The 32nd AIVC and 1st TightVent Conference - Towards Optimal Airtightness Performance, was held in Brussels, Belgium, 12-13 October 2011.
Contains 60 papers.
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The overarching objective of this study was to develop a numerical model based on computational fluid dynamics to predict aerosol concentration…
Office buildings in Chile show higher cooling than heating energy demand. The climate of the country show important differences between cities by the…
In many parts of Asia as typified by Japan, conditioning of the indoor thermal and air environments using natural ventilation since ancient times. When…
As building insulation level increases, the coupling of ventilation systems with building enveloppe airtightness becomes an important issue in order to…
When conducting airtightness tests of buildings, you must ensure that all building parts to be measured have air connection, so that the test object can be…
The issue of the uncertainty of building airtightness measurements has built up a greater importance since this topic was introduced in many regulations…
The 2012 French thermal regulation will include a minimum requirement for residential buildings envelope airtightness, with two options to justify its…
In 2002 the Association for Air Tightness in Buildings (FLiB e. V.) established a certification procedure for airtightness testers in Germany. As…
Origins of toxic gas clouds may be diverse, including accidental releases due to industry or to hazardous materials transportation, or biological or…
The indoor environment can play a significant role in the transmission of and exposure to various contaminants. In the case of some emerging aerial…
It is essential to reduce the inordinate amount of energy used for climate control in buildings. To reduce heat loss in residential buildings, it is…
Nowadays, indoor air quality has become a major concern. Regarding the fact that people spend most of their time indoors, it is necessary to study the…
This paper examines two similar studies in Phoenix, Arizona and Houston, Texas that compared the actual energy performance of three classes of homes –…
The objective of this study is to measure the impact of various classes of filters in the HVAC system on the IAQ in an office building. It aims at…
This article is devoted to Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in two low energy houses, with different frames (cast concrete (I-BB) and timber frame (I-OB)) built in…
The objective of this paper is to summarize results of two studies that compared Baseline, ENERGY STAR® and Guaranteed Performance homes co-located in…
In 1998, Persily published a review of commercial and institutional building airtightness data that found significant levels of air leakage and debunked the…
Air leakage and other diagnostic measurements are being added to LBNL’s Residential Diagnostics Database (ResDB). We describe the sources of data that…
This study presents some results from a monitoring project with night ventilation and earthto- air heat exchanger. Both techniques refer to air-…
This paper focuses on ventilation solutions of a net zero energy building. We present the monitoring results after two years as part of the PHD…