LoginSurface condensation and mould affect about 15 percent of the UK housing stock.
Bibliographic database Airbase
AIRBASE is the Bibliographic Database of the AIVC. It contains publications and abstracts of articles related to energy efficient ventilation. Where possible, sufficient detail is supplied in the bibliographic details for users to trace and order the material via their own libraries. Topics include: ventilation strategies, design and retrofit methods, calculation techniques, standards and regulations, measurement methods, indoor air quality and energy implications etc. Entries are based on articles and reports published in journals, internal publications and research reports, produced both by university departments and by building research institutions throughout the world. AIRBASE has grown and evolved over many years (1979 to present day, over 22000 references and 16000 documents available online). For most of the references, the full document is also available online.
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An analysis of the important factors for comfort in indoor climate is given.
The average UK household spends about +500 per year on heating, lighting and power for domestic appliances but there is a huge variation between individual household expenditures.
Selected articles on the subject of indoor air quality.
Three thermal analysis methods with different degrees of empiricism are quantitatively investigated regarding the ease of use, efficiency, accuracy and redundancy of generated information.
This paper extends an earlier investigation of scale effects on buoyancy driven recirculating flows in stairwells of the kind adopted in domestic accommodation.
The article in last month's issue of "Energy Management" gave a brief overview of the Energy Efficiency Office's programme of demonstrations in the housing sector, as managed by BRE the Building Research Establishment.
Describes the method of ventilation by upward displacement.
The research was intended to discover which species of mould occurred, whether there were different species on the same spot or whether one species was dominant, whether the species were different from one dwelling to another or whether the same s
A plan has been developed for assessing the air quality of non-industrial buildings. It consists of ten tasks. Tasks 1 and 2 are designed to obtain the background information on the building itself, its surroundings and occupants.
Describes a fluid flow modelling technique in which the Navier Stokes Equations are replaced by a method which follows the movement of particles. The particles interact according to the Newtonian law of Conservation of Momentum.
This paper outlines the complexity of the building energy modelling problem and describes the ESP program and, in particular, its air flow modelling capabilities.
The field modelling technique for predicting the temperature distribution and smoke movement in enclosures containing a fire source is validated against experiments carried out in a fully instrumented sports building covered by anair supported dom
Three balanced airflow ventilation devices were evaluated, an exhaust and supply fan (E&SF), air-to-air heat exchanger (ATAHE), and exhaust air heat pump (EAHP), which can be used to increase the ventilation rate in an R-2000 (tightly construc
The traditional handling method of handling heat exchange in a room for design purposes was to suppose that all heat from the plant, radiative as well as convective, was input at a so called "air temperature".