LoginDiscusses in general terms the problem with formaldehyde in schools in Cologne, reported by Deimel (abstract no.803). Considers problems of ventilating school buildings to reduce the concentration of formaldehyde.
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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Discusses organic contaminants in rooms and reviews soviet literature on the subject. Gives a table of maximum permitted concentrations of 59 compounds according to standards of the Soviet Union.
Ventilation efficiency involves two aspects, to preserve thermal comfort, draughts should be avoided and yet one tries to obtain the best "sweeping out" which corresponds with a maximum exhaust of contaminants from the occupied zone for a given fl
The ventilation recommendations set out by the British Standards Institute Code of Practice, the Building Research Station Advisory Papers, and CIBS are outlined.
Derives analytical expressions for the exchange of air across doorways or similar apertures, in terms of the temperature difference between the spaces on both sides of the opening and the net volume of air flowing through this as a result of unbal
Windbreaks probably are more important for reducing infiltration of cold outside air into houses than for reducing convective heat losses.
This paper reviews the literature on sources and levels of pollutants in buildings and looks at the possible effects of a reduction in ventilation rates on the health and comfort of building occupants.
This paper describes the experimental techniques devised to measure the necessary parameters on installed heating systems. With these data the seasonal performance of a heating system can be computed.
The appearance of bubbles used for flow visualisation around bluff bodies in a wind tunnel is illustrated.
This paper describes a set of velocity measurements which were made within a series of models of rectangular enclosures whose dimensions in plan were varied, the heights of the walls being held constant.
The design of a low cost ventilation air heat exchanger which utilizes plastic sheets as the heat transfer surface is presented.
Building services accounts for some 40-50% of the UK's consumption of primary energy.
Describes plan to retrofit 25 townhouses at Twin Rivers evaluating retrofits by instrumenting each house to record energy consumption, temperature, window and door opening and furnace operation.
Reports study of the ways in which different ventilation levels affect people part 1 of the study took place in Gavle. Air change rates, the amounts of radon and its derivatives were measured.
Describes computer program developed by BSRIA to predict ventilation rates and directions of air flow in buildings for given sets of conditions.
The air change rate in a single story office building was measured using atracer gas technique. The air change rate was determined by the rate of decay method using sulfur hexafluoride as the tracer gas. A total of eight tests were conduc
Identified thermophilic actinomycetes contamination of the forced air systems as the sensitizing agents for most of the cases of hypersensitivity pneumonitis in eight patients.