The 33rd AIVC and 2nd TightVent Conference - Optimising Ventilative Cooling and Airtightness for [Nearly] Zero-Energy Buildings, IAQ and Comfort, was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, 10-11 October 2012.
Contains 61 papers.
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Sizing rules in residential ventilation standards lack uniformity in both methodology and resulting design flow rates. In order to investigate the best…
This paper reports on the construction, experimental set up and infiltration characteristics of a purpose built full-scale experimental house. The building…
The airtightness of 36 houses built since 1995 and across four cities in New Zealand (NZ) was measured. In a subset of 31 of these homes, the average…
Indoor environment quality in buildings strongly depends on the proper ventilation. Still a large amount of single- and multifamily buildings are equipped…
Ensuring a proper indoor environment in the museum exhibition rooms requires, among others, the achievement and maintenance of the proper air change rate.…
When planning ventilation systems for energy efficient housing, an appropriate design of the overflow elements between rooms is important as it influences…
The thermal comfort of the residential building Home for Life is investigated with a particular focus on the strategies used to achieve good thermal comfort…
The airtightness of office and educational buildings influences energy use and thermal comfort. A leaky building is likely to have a high use of energy and…
The monitoring of a demand controlled heat recovery ventilation system with ground heat exchange in a zero-energy building in Groenlo, The Netherlands,…
In Spain, the residential sector is the third principal source of energy consumption; many of these dwellings are obsolete and do not have optimal…
Accidental dispersion of toxic gas clouds may occur around industrial platforms or during hazardous materials transportation. In case of such a toxic risk,…
During the project QUAD-BBC, several ventilation systems have been studied in residential (individual house and collective dwellings) and non-residential (…
Building sealing may affect the total air change by decreasing the leakages and question the ability for ventilation systems to reach their goal of…
Traditional architecture gives ideas to enrich modern architecture. In traditional architecture, local materials and renewable energy resources have been…
LBNL Residential Diagnostics Database (ResDB) contains blower door measurements and other diagnostic test results of homes in United States. Of these,…
An emerging issue in Denmark is passive smoking in residential buildings where non-smokers are exposed to harmful smoke from their neighbours. There are…
Demand Controlled Ventilation (DCV) is a well established principle to provide a certain indoor environmental quality, defined both in the terms of air…
The performance of ventilation and airtightness of the building envelope was studied in field measurements in recently constructed Estonian apartment…
The quality of the air that we breathe inside our homes, offices, schools and other public or private buildings is an important determinant of healthy life…
The paper summarizes the activites undertaken by AppliedSensor within the European Clear-up project with respect to new developments in volatile organic…