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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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Airtightness improvement of structures to improve indoor air quality

The aim of improving air tightness of structures is to prevent the uncontrolled air leakages through structures. Built environments contain microbes,…

Katariina Laine
The energy impact of envelope leakage. The Chilean case

Improving the airtightness of housing is an issue that concerns the Chilean state. Building ordinances do not currently include any requirement to limit…

Ariel Bobadilla, Felipe Ossio, Rodrigo Figueroa, Alex González , Muriel Díaz, Roberto Arriagada
Impact of a photocatalytic oxidation layer covering the interior surfaces of a real test room: volatile organic compound mineralisation, risk assessment of by-product and nanoparticle emissions.

Many studies about photocatalytic oxidation (PCO) have been carried out in laboratories. They use an inert test chamber with ideal indoor conditions: a low…

Franck Alessi, Didier Therme
Durable airtightness in single-family dwellings: field measurements and analysis

This study presents a comparison of air leakage measurements collected recently (November 2013 to March 2014) with two sets of prior data collected between…

Wanyu Rengie Chan, Max H. Sherman
Proposed change in Spanish regulations relating to indoor air quality with the aim of reducing energy consumption of ventilation systems

The ventilation required in order to maintain acceptable indoor hygiene standards results in a significant consumption of energy. Currently the Spanish…

Pilar Linares , Sonia García, Guillermo Sotorrío, José A Tenorio
Derivation of equation for personal carbon dioxide in exhaled breath intended to estimation of building ventilation

Carbon dioxide included in exhaled breath is often used as a tracer gas when estimation of ventilation aspect in buildings with occupants is performed.…

Masaki Tajima, Takayuki Inoue, Yuji Ohnishi
Experimental characterisation of dominant driving forces and fluctuating ventilation rates for a single sided slot louver ventilation system

Adopting natural ventilation as a retrofit strategy for cooling, due to the low impact nature of the installation, is attractive due to the cooling…

Paul D O’Sullivan, Maria Kolokotroni
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