The 36th AIVC Conference " Effective ventilation in high performance buildings", was held in Madrid, Spain, 23-24 September 2015. Contains 119 papers and extended summaries.
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The paper presents a numerical methodology to assess the natural ventilation. UrbaWind is an automatic computational fluid dynamics code. It was developed…
As an alternative to adopting active architectural systems (mechanical systems) and taking advantage of the resources provided by nature, natural…
This paper describes Post Occupancy Evaluation survey and physical measurements of five families living for one year or longer in five houses located in…
Ventilation plan for smoking room must deal with pollutants since they affect the air quality of adjacent rooms. Although ventilation plan typically…
The objective of this study is to develop an approach concerning the integration of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emissions due to office equipment in…
A mass balance model is used to examine the impact of two ventilation (1 /h and 2 /h) and recirculation (7 /h and 14 /h) rates on concentrations, exposure…
The trend toward minimizing ventilation of houses in order to reduce energy consumption for heating and cooling leads to an increase in indoor air pollution…
The present study aimed at assessing six commercially-available in-duct air cleaning devices which are designed to be mounted in the central ventilation…
Supermarkets are a category of non-domestic buildings with high energy use because of their operation. Recent work indicates that by improvements to the…
People spend more than 80% of their time indoors. In contrast to ambient air, no (legal) limits for indoor particulate matter exist, although there are WHO…
This paper presents two case studies of stack driven ventilative cooling systems implemented in kindergarten schools located in the mild Subtropical-…
Night sky radiative cooling technology using PhotoVoltaic/Thermal panels (PVT) and night time ventilation have been studied both by means of simulations and…
The new initiatives and regulations towards nearly zero energy buildings forces designers to exploit the cooling potential of the climate to reduce the…
There is an expanding literature on the value of sustainability features in buildings (European Commission, 2013; World GBC, 2013; World GBC, 2014). While…
The role of ventilation in achieving acceptable indoor air quality is examined in the light of emerging challenges, alternative mitigation strategies and…
This key note presents the objectives, approaches and expected results of the on-going annexes relevant for ventilation and air infiltration in…
In the definition of the nZEB, the use of only one requirement is misleading. Different requirements are combined to a coherent assessment of an nZEB and to…
The current regulation in Spain regarding Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) provisions is Building Code (Código Técnico de la Edificación) for dwellings and…
According to past researches, most people spend 80%-90% of their time indoors. The ventilation is very important to people’s health and the comfortable…
The paper at hand collects research findings on the impact of air flow on the thermal performance of pitched roof assemblies. Air flows in these components…