LoginThe paper in hand investigates the potentials and limitations of ventilative cooling strategies in the moderate Central Europe climate region of Vienna, Austria, offering a a basic load break down of the thermodynamic night ventilation sub-process
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This article deals with summer comfort and room air distribution in low-energy housings. In such buildings, the efficient thermal insulation and air tightness make it crucial to efficiently dispose of the heat released by the internal gains.
The airtightness of 36 houses built since 1995 and across four cities in New Zealand (NZ) was measured.
French standard for airtightness measurements is NF EN 13829. It is completed by French application guide GA P50-784, to set calibration rules more precisely, among other issues. This guide was published in 2010.
Natural ventilation is increasingly considered a promising solution to improve thermal comfort in buildings, including schools.
Hybrid ventilation (HV), as a combination of automated natural ventilation (NV) and balanced mechanical ventilation (MV), provides opportunities to use the advantages of both ventilation systems during the seasons in order to reduce energy demand
The energy consumption needed for establishing a good indoor climate in shopping centres is often very high due to high internal heat loads from lighting and equipment and from a high people density at certain time intervals.
Air quality in offices depends on the ventilation system ability to remove contaminants from the occupied zone.
Natural ventilation and dynamic temperature simulation of buildings was until now a priviledge of highly skilled building physicists. Combined simulation of both is even rarer.
by space and water heating. The high costs of energy are a national matter not only for their economic and environmental implications, but also because they contribute largely to a social problem, known as fuel poverty.
Despite a lot of Integrated Design Process guidelines and procedures have been developed in the last few years, more specific energy design procedures are needed to push the implementation of passive design techniques.
The UK Government strategy for all new homes to be built to zero carbon standards by 2016 is based upon a “fabric first” approach to design.
Reliable airtightness data is needed to calculate the estimate of air infiltration and the thermal loads for building energy efficiency and indoor comfort.
This paper reports on the construction, experimental set up and infiltration characteristics of a purpose built full-scale experimental house.
Ensuring a proper indoor environment in the museum exhibition rooms requires, among others, the achievement and maintenance of the proper air change rate.
DIN 4108-7 requires a limit of q50 ≤ 3.0 m³/m²h for the air permeability of large buildings. Even stricter limits with respect to q50 can be found at DGNB [German Sustainable Building Council] and in the Swiss MINERGIE Standard.
In France, starting January 1st, 2013, the energy performance regulation will impose an airtightness treatment for every new residential building.
BR10 requires that all new residential constructions should be built as low energy housing. In order to meet these requirements residential buildings must be equipped with far more complex technology, than conventional housing.
The aim of this paper is to investigate the influence of the selective ventilation in the thermal performance of modern naturally-ventilated houses built in the 1950’s and 1960’s in Goiânia, located in middle-west of Brazil.
The efficiency of air-to-air heat recovery ventilation units is of great importance for EP calculations (energy performance of buildings) throughout Europe.