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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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Energy consumption in buildings for heating, cooling and lighting needs to be reduced in all European countries in order to achieve the goals set by the latest European Directives for reducing energy consumption by 20% and increase the introduct
The materials that are used in outdoor spaces are of prime importance as they modulate the air temperature of the lowest layers of the urban canopy layer, they are central to the energy balance of the surface and they form the energy exchanges tha
There is a growing consensus that the climate is changing faster than at any time in the past millennium. This is likely to have major effects upon many aspects of the built environment.
Heat island which is the most documented phenomenon of climatic change is related to the increase of urban temperatures compared to the suburban.
The principle of roofs cooling through the water vapour adsorption-desorption cycle in porous materials is presented.
Appropriate strategies to reduce energy consumption, increase Renewable Energy Sources (RES) penetration within local urban ecosystems are the higher priorities towards low carbon cities.
Cool roof is a well-documented passive cooling strategy for buildings in several climate conditions.
Nowadays, important efforts are made to reduce the residential building energy consumption. In this context, a growing interest for heat recovery ventilation has been observed during the last decades.
Increasing roof reflectance reduces absorption of solar radiation, roof surface temperatures, and heat flux in the building interior.
Fixed shading systems are saving energy by reducing the cooling loads of the space they shade, but can be a source of energy losses due to the increased need of daylight that they create.
Heat recovery ventilation became an unavoidable element of a passive or nearly zero energy building in Northern and Central Europe countries.
The increase of the ambient air temperatures in urban areas during the past few decades, due to the heat island phenomenon and the warming of the lower atmosphere, has strong impact on the energy profile of buildings, the comfort conditions, the a
In order to improve the quality of ventilation systems, assessments are widely used. In this paper, 3 main assessment levels are distinguished based on the number of ventilation systems to be assessed and the assessment objective.
Earth-to-air heat exchangers are energy-efficient systems that use the ground for cooling in summer and heating in winter.
The need to improve the energy performance of buildings, both new but also, and in particular, existing ones, is more imperative than ever.
Non-invasive, scalable, building retrofit solutions are amongst the most likely large scale adoption techniques to assist in climate change adaptation in the existing built environment, particularly in university type buildings where rehousing liv
Assessing thermal risk in urban areas is essential, as this can have major implications to human health and may influence quality of life in urban areas as well as the urban microclimate.
In a Dutch project the double façade became an integral part of the ventilation concepts aa well as the heating system by trying to optimize the heat gain within the cavity during spring and autumn.
Clay roof tiles are widely used as roofing materials because of their good mechanical and aesthetical properties.