Submitted by Maria.Kapsalaki on Thu, 10/24/2024 - 16:31
Personal Environmental Control System (PECS) with the functions of heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting and acoustic has advantages of controlling the localized environment at occupant’s workstation by their preference instead of conditioning an entire room. This improves personal comfort, health and energy efficiency of the entire heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system substantially. Personalized ventilation will also provide improved protection against cross contaminations, which are critical in open plan offices and workplaces with close distance.
Submitted by Maria.Kapsalaki on Fri, 10/27/2023 - 10:45
The 44th AIVC conference "Retrofitting the Building Stock: Challenges and Opportunities for Indoor Environmental Quality" was held on 9 & 10 October 2024 in Dublin together with the 12th TightVent conference and the 10th venticool conference. There were 180 participants from 26 countries.
The conference consisted of parallel sessions largely devoted to:
Submitted by Maria.Kapsalaki on Thu, 10/06/2022 - 11:22
The 43rd AIVC conference "Ventilation, IEQ and health in sustainable buildings" was held on 4 & 5 October 2023 in Copenhagen together with the 11th TightVent conference and the 9th venticool conference. There were 200 participants from 33 countries.
The conference consisted of 3 parallel sessions largely devoted to:
Submitted by Maria.Kapsalaki on Fri, 09/02/2022 - 12:23
As the AIVC was created in 1979, the 40th anniversary of the AIVC was celebrated in October 2019 at the 40th AIVC conference in Ghent. In the context of this celebration, it was decided to publish 2 overview publications:
Submitted by Maria.Kapsalaki on Tue, 01/14/2025 - 14:21
The Book of Proceedings of the 44th AIVC - 12th TightVent - 10th venticool Conference "Retrofitting the Building Stock: Challenges and Opportunities for Indoor Environmental Quality", held in Dublin, Ireland on 9-10 October 2024.
Submitted by Maria.Kapsalaki on Tue, 01/14/2025 - 12:37
The Presentations the 44th AIVC - 12th TightVent - 10th venticool Conference "Retrofitting the Building Stock: Challenges and Opportunities for Indoor Environmental Quality", held in Dublin, Ireland on 9-10 October 2024.
Submitted by Maria.Kapsalaki on Tue, 01/14/2025 - 10:08
This article follows a first publication presented at the AIVC2022 conference (Handtschoewercker, 2022), with the preliminary results of the RENOVAIR project, that studies the impact of energy renovation works on social housing on the comfort and health of occupants when no requirements are given on IAQ, ventilation and airtightness performances.
Submitted by Maria.Kapsalaki on Tue, 01/14/2025 - 10:08
Improving the energy performance of a building has been shown to improve health outcomes in fuel poor homes (Wang et al., 2022). However, increasing building air tightness through provision of increased insulation, without due regard to building ventilation, can result in poorer air quality and impaired health for residents, in particular impaired respiratory health (Wimalasena et al., 2021; McGill et al., 2015; Ferguson et al., 2020).
Submitted by Maria.Kapsalaki on Tue, 01/14/2025 - 08:39
More and more single-family houses are being retrofitted to achieve better energy efficiency levels. In this retrofitting process, the building envelope's airtightness is usually improved, and a ventilation system becomes necessary to create and sustain a healthy indoor air quality (IAQ). However, in France, as in many other western countries, ventilation requirements exist for new dwellings but not for residential retrofitting.
Submitted by Maria.Kapsalaki on Mon, 01/13/2025 - 17:25
The ingress of naturally occurring radioactive radon gas from the soil into buildings can occur both by convection through any openings in the foundations as a result of pressure differentials and by diffusion across an airtight barrier (World Health Organization 2009). Residential ventilation systems and exhaust devices can affect indoor radon concentrations if they result in depressurization of the conditioned spaced relative to the outdoors or to the soil below the foundations or if they supply outdoor air directly.
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