The 35th AIVC Conference " Ventilation and airtightness in transforming the building stock to high performance", was held in Poznań, Poland, 24-25 September 2014. Contains 86 papers.
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In low energy buildings and passive houses due to very low heating demands integrated heating and ventilation (VAV or DCV) systems are used to provide…
Demand controlled ventilation (DCV) is seen more and more as a promising way to limit the energy consumption due to ventilation in buildings. However DCV is…
Mechanical positive input and extract ventilation are common strategies employed in English houses, generally because they provide adequate indoor air…
We propose a new approach for measuring air infiltration rates in buildings. The method belongs to the class of tracer gas techniques but, unlike…
The present study aims at investigating carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations inside elementary schools’ classrooms and how students’ productivity is affected…
Cooking devices are a major source of contaminants in dwellings. They cause exposure to combustion products and vapors. The type and production rate of…
In both, newly built and renovated buildings the building air-tightness has to be ensured. With a tight building envelope comes a low infiltration air-…
In the past, many churches were raised and in a church building no heating no heating system was installed, except a simple individual coal or peat stove,…
In Sweden, the energy usage in existing residential buildings amounted to 147 TWh in 2012, equivalent to almost 40 % of the final overall national energy…
Mandatory building airtightness testing came gradually into force in the UK, France, Ireland and Denmark. It is considered in many other European countries…
Traditional building technologies establishing highly-breathing multi-layered wall systems provide healthy indoor environment and energy efficiency in…
During field measurements on the airtightness of passive houses, ventilations system’s roof penetrations showed to be one of the major leakage paths, as…
Reduction of energy consumption and green house gas emissions of buildings is a great challenge in Europe. In this context French energy performance…
MONICAIR --MONItoring & Control of Air quality in Individual Rooms-- is a pre-competitive field research project of a broad consortium of Dutch…
In the “Exemplary Buildings” program of the Brussels Capital Region, building owners and designers are challenged to realise building projects of both high…
To realize the concept of low-energy buildings, an increase in the thermal insulation performance of building parts, especially the openings that show poor…
Zero Energy Buildings require airtightness and mechanical ventilation systems to provide air changes and energy saving. These requirements contrast with the…
The article describes the results of an experimental campaign carried out at ITC-CNR in outdoor test cells to evaluate the energy performance and the…
The airtightness just after the end of a building phase is assumed to be relevant criteria for high energy performance. Testing on site the initial…
This paper presents the new framework for the realization of reliable pressurization tests in Belgium and the provisions taken to widen the number of…