The conference "IAQ 2020: Indoor Environmental Quality Performance Approaches Transitioning from IAQ to IEQ”, organized by ASHRAE and AIVC, was held in Athens, Greece on 4-6 May 2022. The conference was also the 41st AIVC - 9th TightVent & 7th venticool conference. This collection contains 110 conference papers and 16 extended abstracts.
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The primary purpose of ventilation and air-conditioning system is to ensure internal comfort conditions through a continuous supply of…
Nowadays people spend an average of 87% of their time inside buildings. Schools are a particularly delicate type of buildings for several…
Urbanization has led to systemic environmental factors that degrade air quality and microbial diversity, negatively impacting human…
The present study investigates acoustic comfort in naturally ventilated residential buildings through an indoor soundscape approach.…
The steady-state concentration of occupant generated carbon dioxide (CO2) is used in some applications as an indicator of compliance with…
This study aims at obtaining feedback from occupants of low-energy retrofitted houses concerning the indoor environmental quality (IEQ)…
The sudden global outbreak of coronavirus diseases 2019 (COVID-19) has infected over seventy million people and resulted in over one…
A longitudinal study was conducted to establish metrics on perception, concentration and characterization of indoor air quality (IAQ) at…
A major challenge in the built environment is the integration of energy and indoor environmental quality in the optimization of existing…
Respiratory infections are transmitted by droplets and droplet nuclei generated by human coughing, sneezing, and talking. Droplets and…
The materials that compose the built environment have a key role in the resulting energy demand since their thermal properties affect the…
Ventilation in dwellings is likely to be impacted by configurations of windows and internal doors, but there is little empirical research…
Due to age-related physiological changes, older people are more vulnerable than young people to heat or cold conditions. Predicting older…
The fan pressurization method is a common practice in many countries for measuring the air leakage of houses. The test results are…
France is committed to minimizing its greenhouse gas emissions by focusing on the most energy-consuming sector, the residential and…
Infiltration of unconditioned air through access openings and entrance doors with high recurrence can cause detrimental impacts to the energy performance,…
In the UK, people spend over 90% of a day indoors. On weekdays, when outdoor air pollution concentrations peak in the morning and in the…
Ventilation systems assume that the outdoor air quality is better than the indoor air quality at al times as they use outdoor air to…
Humidity-based DCV systems have been widely used in France for 35 years and are considered as a reference system, including for low-…
In building energy renovation, the notion of payback time of the investments is often presented as the only goal. However, the potential…