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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Climate change has exacerbated the summertime overheating in buildings, necessitating resilient adaptation strategies. Based on our…
The challenges posed by climate change and related thermal discomfort in school classrooms are a worldwide challenge. Recent research…
The paper introduces an approach for assessing the resilience of buildings to both current heat waves and their recurrence in the future…
Occupants in natural ventilated buildings usually control ventilation through window opening. As part of the PRELUDE H2020 project a…
The durability of air barrier systems is a topic that is rarely discussed during the design phase of most projects. An unfortunate amount…
Achieving adequate airtightness of a building envelope is crucial for preventing moisture-related damages in cold and humid climate zones…
Durability of airtightness – and more generally of thermal performances – is an important question at both building and component levels…
The DURABILITAIR project, conducted from 2016 to 2019, aimed to assess the durability of air sealing products used in building envelopes…
Adaptive comfort technology is reflecting the fact that the human body adapts to changing temperatures. As such, the temperature level…
Indoor inhalation exposure can be minimized through mechanical ventilation. On the other hand, building and mechanical ventilation design…
Smart-ventilation with airflows adapting to the need of buildings reduces energy consumptions and can improve IAQ. In some countries,…
The protection from chronic harm provided by exposure limit values (ELVs) is evaluated for indoor air contaminants set by regulatory…
The inclusion of health-based performance indicators and metrics in ventilation system design and research is a widely discussed topic in…
Ensuring an indoor environmental quality that is acceptable to the majority of users, while also being energy efficient is a challenge.…
The global increase in building cooling demands poses a challenge for designers striving for net zero energy consumption. The prevalent…
Ventilative cooling is a free cooling methodology, harnessing the cooling potential of the outdoor air to remove excess heat, without the…
This study utilized a CONTAM simulation to assess the effects of airtightness improvements in TNPI rooms. Sobol sensitivity analysis was…
Although the physics concerning air pressures in buildings don’t differ between countries, often different reference values of the…
Ensuring the airtightness of building envelopes is crucial for enhancing the energy efficiency of buildings. The prompt detection of…
Improving the energy efficiency of buildings and the quality of indoor air requires accurate assessments of airtightness. The…