The material presented in this paper highlights some aspects of""two research projects, The control of natural ventilation , and Night cooling strategies . The research has led to the development of generic control strategies. These have evolved from consideration of the control strategies used in naturally ventilated buildings utilising Building Management Systems (BMS) control together with experience obtained from monitoring three naturally ventilated buildings. The site monitoring has also led to recommendations being provided for commissioning and fine tuning procedures.
This paper presents a research project, of which the primary goal was to investigate the possibilities of designing a natural ventilation system with heat recovery solely driven by the indoor-outdoor temperature difference. The theory used for design of a prototype system and the prototype itself is describes as well as the measured performance. The project has shown that it is possible to design a natural ventilation system solely driven by the difference between the temperature indoors and outdoors with a heat recovery efficiency of 40-45%.