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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Smart ventilation in residential buildings has gained rising attention recently for the benefits of reducing energy consumption and…
The BENEFIT project seeks to assess indoor environmental quality and occupant comfort in energy efficient non-domestic Irish buildings…
The rapid growth in the use of low-cost sensors for indoor air quality (IAQ) measurement campaigns, following the COVID-19 pandemic, has…
Project RESILIENCE set out to examine overheating in a variety of building archetypes, but also examined several aspects of overheating…
There is an increasing need to consider and evaluate the effect of existing ambient warmness on current low energy buildings to determine…
Project RESILIENCE set out to examine overheating risk in a variety of non-residential building archetypes, but also examined several…
Thermal comfort of adolescents (10-17 year olds) in school classrooms is an important but less explored topic. The classroom thermal…
Children spend about 80-90% of their time indoors, making the quality of indoor environments (IEQ) crucial, particularly since children…
During the COVID-19 pandemic, besides sanitising, masking, and increasing social distancing, opening classroom windows was the NZ…
Improving air quality in existing classrooms can be difficult if retrofitting a mechanical ventilation system is considered too expensive…
This study focuses on the impact of filtration efficiency level and airflow control, based on CO2, on indoor air quality described by particle concentration…
Identifying factors that affect classroom concentrations of particulate matter is important for enabling effective mitigation of the…
The project aims to investigate the degree of influence that outdoor conditions may have on the indoor environment in Norwegian schools.…
In high-efficient residential buildings, energy use due to ventilation can reach 60% of the total building. Smart-ventilation systems…
This work quantifies the chronic harm caused by long-term exposure to common indoor air contaminants in dwellings located in the global…
In France, the regulation context for ventilation is based on the decree « Arreté de 1982 » which is a prescriptive regulation, requiring…
In many countries, the traditional method of ventilating dwellings involved natural ventilation, based on the operation of windows and…
Efforts must be made to promote the use of efficient ventilation systems in buildings with the aim of reducing energy demand, as…
The context of climate change and the need of saving energy has required rethinking the ventilation and the air change rates in buildings…
This study explored the design optimization possibilities for Danish retirement homes while considering an increased risk of overheating…