LoginThis paper investigates possible natural ventilation strategies to reduce exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) in dwellings.
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The purpose of this study was to test an Indoor Air Quality model on a variety of Canadian homes, and use this model to determine the optimal ventilation levels necessary to provide appropriate comfort levels.
The Air Lock Floor and the Pressure Ring are two effective measures for control of air flow directions between rooms or zones in buildings. They create a pressure hierarchy that controls spread of pollutants.
The following report documents the design and development of an automatic vent closure system for residential exhaust systems.
The comparison of four methods for the calculation of deep-basement heat loss is presented along with measured data for three basement types.
Natural ventilation coefficient curves were generated using the NatVent 2.0 software, for naturally ventilated livestock building models with a total of 60 design variations including 5 building lengths, 2 sidewall opening heights, 3 ridge opening
There are many reasons why the air quality in a building may fall well short of what it was intended to be, explains Trevor Callen.
The role of building services engineers in providing healthy and comfortable conditions in buildings as well as protecting the environment, is a very important one. Billy Manning considers the issues.
Une revue des codes numeriques permettant de predire le comportement des batiments multizones montre nettement la difficulte qu'il y a a Jes evaluer par manque de donnees experimentales fiab/es. Apres une breve description des methodes de caracter
Sauna is the Finnish word for a wood-lined and insulated room, heated by a special stove containing stones, and erected specifically to create the right environment for a certain kind of dry bath.
A network approach is chosen for a new building simulation program BUS, and a lumped capacitance method (LCM) is selected for the assessment of temperature levels and energy consumption of a building.
The School of the Built Environment at De Montfort University represents the first in a new breed of naturally ventilated buildings.