The 38th AIVC Conference "Ventilating healthy low-energy buildings", was held in Nottingham, UK, 13-14 September 2017. Contains 113 papers and summaries.
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It has already been proved that air leakage causes a great impact in the energy performance of buildings in cold climates. In recent years, many studies…
A literature review has revealed that there is a very limited number of numerical or experimental studies of the air flow for mechanically ventilated large…
An airtight building envelope ensures not only the energy-efficiency of a building, but also a damage free construction. Important to achieve optimal…
Heatwaves are often responsible for many deaths due to high temperature indoors. Energy savings is a key element in building design and refurbishment works…
Mandatory building airtightness testing has come gradually into force in European countries mostly because of the increasing weight of building leakage…
Demand controlled ventilation (DCV) refers to a ventilation system with air flow rates that are controlled based on a measurement of an indoor air quality (…
One of the key objectives of the IEA Annex 68 research programme entitled “Indoor Air Quality Design and Control in Low Energy Residential Buildings” is to…
Wind pressure and thermal forces are driving forces for pressure difference on the building envelope. In European and German standards infiltration is…
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…
Air infiltration holds a central role in building energy consumption and is associated to several building physics phenomena. Air infiltration in buildings…
There are several methods for measuring air tightness that may result in different values and sometimes quite different uncertainties. The two main…
The industry is now focusing in system solutions and the goal is to be able to deliver complete reliable, energy efficient solutions that is understandable…
With lower air leakage in modern homes, ventilation of homes has become more important than ever before. It seems however that we are getting it very wrong…