The 44th AIVC Conference "Retrofitting the Building Stock: Challenges and Opportunities for Indoor Environmental Quality", was held in Dublin, Ireland on 9-10 October 2024. Contains 127 papers and/or summaries.
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Decisions about whether it is worthwhile to seal duct leakage in large buildings are based upon different needs in different applications…
There is a pressing need for large-scale energy retrofits in domestic dwellings to reduce carbon emissions. However, these retrofit strategies must be…
Research suggests that energy retrofit measures can have a positive impact on temperature, relative humidity, and can reduce the…
This article follows a first publication presented at the AIVC2022 conference (Handtschoewercker, 2022), with the preliminary results of…
Achieving better energy efficiency requires dwellings to face a delicate equilibrium, balancing thermal comfort and indoor air quality.…
Improving the energy performance of a building has been shown to improve health outcomes in fuel poor homes (Wang et al., 2022). …
The BENEFIT project evaluates the indoor environmental quality in non-domestic buildings where energy efficiency upgrades will be…
Nowadays, the building sector faces many challenges on occupant and resource levels. Given many indoor environmental quality (IEQ)…
This session will begin with providing an overview of presence Personal Environmental Control Systems (PECS) related mention in various…
Personal Environmental Control Systems (PECS) enable to individually control the environment in the immediate surroundings of an occupant…
This summary highlights the benefits of PECS for occupants’ health, comfort, and cognitive performance. A comprehensive literature review…
Daycare centers (DCCs) are pivotal in early childhood development, serving as a primary indoor environment for young children. A notable…
When making homes more sustainable, the emphasis is on scaling up to achieve the climate and energy objectives. Little attention is paid…
More than 70% of the dwellings in Chile were built before 2000, when the use of thermal insulation in the roofs of residential buildings…
The Performance 2 project (2020-2024) is a French national research project that aims to evaluate the long-term performance and…
This study evaluates the performance of Single-Flow and Dual-Flow ventilation systems in a residential building situated in Strasbourg,…
More and more single-family houses are being retrofitted to achieve better energy efficiency levels. In this retrofitting process, the…
Radon gas is the second biggest cause of lung cancer after smoking and is directly linked to approximately 350 lung cancer cases in…
Increasing indoor ventilation has the potential to dilute indoor radon and may be an appropriate first step when measured indoor radon…
The ingress of naturally occurring radioactive radon gas from the soil into buildings can occur both by convection through any openings…