The 34th AIVC - 3rd TightVent - 2nd Cool Roofs - 1st venticool Conference - Energy conservation technologies for mitigation and adaptation in the built environment: the role of ventilation strategies and smart materials was held in Athens, Greece, 25-26 September 2013.
Contains 130 papers.
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The treatment of roof space with cool paint or vegetation is a widely employed urban heat mitigation strategy. As the allocation of roof space for social…
Airtightness and controlled ventilation are important factors affecting energy use and indoor air quality. Airtightness tests were carried out on nine…
Non-invasive, scalable, building retrofit solutions are amongst the most likely large scale adoption techniques to assist in climate change adaptation in…
In recent years, with actualization of a global warming issue, the need for simultaneous pursuit of progress of comfort in living space at residential house…
The thermal comfort of the residential buildings Home for Life in Denmark, LichtAktiv Haus in Germnay and Sunlighthouse in Austria is investigated with a…
A lightweight aluminium nocturnal radiator, painted with an appropriate paint, was established on the roof of the Department of Environmental & Natural…
Detached residential wooden houses are a common type of housing in Japan. Decay of wooden components within the walls caused by condensation or defective…
In this article, it will be shown how heat recovery ventilation with closed-loop ground heat exchange performs in practice, in a residential building in…
Maintaining an IAQ with fresh in school building is very important because the good IAQ can keep the student in health and improve the academic performance…
A good level of thermal insulation and an adequate thermal capacity of the building envelope are essential to achieve good energy performance. Many studies…
Large, multi-storey buildings pose a particular challenge for natural ventilation design due to the interaction between heat and air flows through different…
A characterization and modeling process has been conducted in order to better account for ventilative cooling in the evaluation of energy performance of…
This work is based on the RESHYVENT project in which the effectiveness of hybrid (i.e. combined natural and mechanical ventilation) was measured and…
Common experiences, standards, and laboratory studies show that increased air velocity helps to offset warm sensation due to high environmental temperatures…
Public residential buildings in Singapore are designed as naturally ventilated. As climate changes, the indoor thermal comfort becomes critical as it…
The climate of Greece is typical Mediterranean with wet, cool winters and hot, dry summers. The temperature range is on average between 5°C to 35°C without…
Night ventilation has been applied successfully to many passively-cooled or low-energy office buildings. This paper analyses the thermal comfort achievable…
Passive cooling in the built environment is now reaching is phase of maturity. Passive cooling is achieved by the use of techniques for solar and heat…
Developing a method to optimize the investment cost of a building and the energy performance, represented by the energy consumption, one gets easily…
Ventilation is especially important to get a good Indoor Air Quality in schools. This is important as the young children have very vulnerable still…