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Contributed Reports are reports produced by third parties but considered of relevance for the AIVC target audience.

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CR22: Quantifying population harm from indoor air contaminants in dwellings

Airborne contaminants cause significant harm to populations of people. People spend most of their time in their own homes and so their…

Giobertti Morantes Quintana
CR21: Performance of Portable Gas-Phase Air Cleaners and Impact on Indoor Air Quality. A Literature Review

This report is a deliverable from IEA-EBC Annex 78 “Supplementing Ventilation with Gas-phase Air Cleaning, Implementation and Energy…

Alireza Afshari, Jianshun Zhang
CR20: A method for testing gas-phase air cleaners

Worldwide, there is an increasing number of publications related to air cleaning and there is also an increasing sale of gas phase air…

B. W. Olesen, P. Wargocki, S. Tanabe
Jakub Kolarik, Gabriel Rojas-Kopeinig
CR18: Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality in New California Homes with Gas Appliances and Mechanical Ventilation

Substantial energy is used to condition the air that enters California homes through leaks in the building envelope and ductwork - typically about a…

W.R. Chan, Y-S Kim, B.D. Less, B.C. Singer, I.S. Walker
CR 17: Indoor Air Quality Design and Control in Low-energy Residential Buildings- Annex 68 | Subtask 1: Defining the metrics | In the search of indices to evaluate the Indoor Air Quality of low-energy residential buildings

The objective of present work was to develop the metric that assess the performance of solutions securing high indoor air quality in low-energy (modern)…

Marc O. Abadie, Pawel Wargocki
CR 16: Towards compliant building airtightness and ventilation systems

Because buildings are responsible for 40% of energy use and 36% of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions in the EU, energy efficiency in buildings has become a…

AIVC
CR 15: Development and evaluation of a new test method for portable air cleaners

The objective of this study was the development of a new test method for portable indoor air cleaners.

A test rig has been designed and built for…

Ginestet A.
CR 14: Methods and techniques for airtight buildings

There exists a significant body of literature on energy and indoor air quality impacts of envelope leakage. In fact, this topic has been studied since the…

Carrié F.R., Jobert R., Leprince V.
CR 13: Reduction of tobacco smoke in the hospitality business

This study is about the effectiveness of the indicated ventilation measures in the day-to-day operations of three types of hospitality businesses:

de Gids W.F., Jacobs P.
CR 12: Indoor air quality in French dwellings

Our lack of understanding of the health risks related to air pollutants exposure in buildings is perceived as a major deficiency, even though 80% of our…

Kirchner S. et al.
CR 11: Air Leakage of U.S. Homes: Model Prediction

Air tightness is an important property of building envelopes. It is a key factor in determining infiltration and related wall-performance properties such as…

McWilliams J.,Sherman M.H.
CR 10: Ventilation Behavior and Household Characteristics in New California Houses

A survey was conducted to determine occupant use of windows and mechanical ventilation devices; barriers that inhibit their use; satisfaction with indoor…

Price P.N.,Sherman M.H.
CR 09: Source book for residential hybrid ventilation development

This report has been produced in the framework of the EU RESHYVENT project (Cluster Project on Demand Controlled Hybrid Ventilation in Residential Buildings…

De Gids W.F.
CR 08: Occupant behaviour and attitudes with respect to ventilation of dwellings

This report has been produced in the framework of the EU RESHYVENT project (Cluster Project on Demand Controlled Hybrid Ventilation in Residential Buildings…

Van Dongen J.E.F.
CR 07: State-of-the-art of low-energy residential ventilation

This report has been produced in the framework of the EU RESHYVENT project (Cluster Project on Demand Controlled Hybrid Ventilation in Residential Buildings…

Schild P.G.
CR 06: Low-pressure-drop HVAC design for laboratories

Laboratory ventilation systems are designed to isolate and protect occupants from hazardous fumes and at the same time provide outside air at comfortable…

Weale J., Rumsey P., Sartor D.,Eng Lock L.
CR 05: Considerations concerning costs and benefits with application to ventilation

Decision makers that have to decide which type of HVAC system that has to be installed in a building, will usually base their decisions on the investment…

Wouters P., Heijmans N.
CR 04: Contrasting the capabilities of building energy performance simulation programs

For the past 50 years, a wide variety of building energy simulation programs have been developed, enhanced, and are in use throughout the building energy…

Crawley D. B. , Hand J. W. ,Kummert M. , Griffith B. T.
CR 03: Ventilated Double Skin Façades: Classification & illustration of facade concepts

This document proposes a classification of the concepts of ventilated double facades, also referred to hereafter in this document as "VDF". The main…

Loncour X., Deneyer A., Blasco M., Flamant G., Wouters P.
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