IAQ and natural controlled ventilation requirements - performance and standard aspects.

As everybody knows, today the air quality of an indoor environment may have several effectson our health; the beginning of serious breathing pathologies and of some forms of cancer,are with no doubt due to the presence of polluting and extremely noxious agents in the placeswe most frequently use.That's the reason why it is very important that indoor rooms are correctly aired also in ourhomes where, due to several incidental factors, the healthiness of the environment is stillguaranteed by the mere and discretionary operation of users of opening the windows.In considering the growing attention drawn to these problems and in agreement with theprovisions of the 3rd essential requirement laid down in Common Directive 8911 06, 'Hygiene,Health and the Environment', ICITE has undertaken to develop a research andexperimentation study aimed at establishing a device for the controlled natural ventilation ofresidential environments.The main objectives have focused on the technical and performance-oriented characteristicsof the devices that are already available on the Community markets and on the regulativeaspects for what concerns air healthiness in domestic environments, while the final phase ofthe work, still in progress, will give new developping guidelines, both in regulative andproductive terms.