LoginAccording to the National Institute of Building Science (2006), one of the main goals of building commissioning is to “maintain facility performance across its life cycle”.
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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Domed skylights are important architectural design elements to deliver daylight and solar heat into buildings and connect building’s occupants to outdoor.
In the modern architectural design, large space open area is widely used, for example, atrium, airport, open office, etc.
The paper presents the theory for a design tool to calculate drying of concrete, from green condition to flooring. The degree of hydration, the cement ratio of the concrete, the temperature and the moisture state are taken into account.
This paper presents the concept and a test implementation of a digital representation of the physical world designed to assess comfort quality in future environments.
Nowadays, building performance simulation (BPS) is still primarily used for code compliance checking in the Netherlands whilst it could provide the user already useful design information by e.g.
There are several ways to attempt to model a building and its heat gains from external sources as well as internal ones in order to evaluate a proper operation and also audit retrofits actions.
The main objective of this paper is to establish a set of test cases for analytical verifications and intermodel comparisons of ground heat exchanger (GHX) models used in building simulation programs. Several test cases are suggested.
Appraisal of modern performance-based energy codes, as well as heating, ventilation, airconditioning and refrigeration (HVAC/R) system*design require use of an integrated building and system performance simulation program. However, the required sc
Over the last three decades the use of building performance simulation (BPS) tools has increased but its ability to support building design is still limited. State of the art BPS tools have the potential to be used more extensively during the enti
EnergyPlus models follow fundamental heat balance principles very closely in almost all aspects of the program. However, the simulation of building surface constructions has relied on a transfer function transformation carried over from BLAST.
Objective of this study is to evaluate the cooling potential of buried pipes and a derivative thereof, for buildings situated in Brazilian climate.
The common EPIC – AIVC Conference was organized in Lyon France between 22 to 24 of November 2006. A very high number of excellent papers were presented and the conference was regarded as being of high scientific quality.
The epidemiological research on indoor environments in homes and health has been reviewed.Science has mainly been about health effects like asthma/allergies and exposures such as VOCs,mould and dampness. So far there are few conclusive findings.
In the sickroom, high indoor air quality and thermal comfort is essential for the treatment of patients.Therefore it is proposed to use displacement ventilation for the whole room ventilation and the radiantpanel for the thermal comfort of each be
A floor heating, so called ‘Ondol’, is widely used in korea, and it has been known that Ondol provids good thermal environment.
Personalized Ventilation (PV) has been shown to improve inhaled air quality recently. However, it maylead to dissatisfaction such as draft due to personalized air applied locally to the facial region, orstuffiness due to inadequate air supply.
In Thailand, the emissions of air pollutants from industrial areas are one of the main sources of airpollution. It is generally believed that indoor air pollution such as VOCs as negative causes for ahealth risk.
Urban indoor air quality (IAQ) is an international health issue, since city dwellers spend 90% of theirtime indoors.
This report describes the results from the questionnaire and detailed survey conducted in 2004 to 2006.The 15 items of questionnaire included in facilities management, maintenance management, savingenergy, art gallery facilities.