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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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The Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre is currently finalising the detailed work program for its Numerical Database.
AC pressurisation is a method for measuring the airtightness of buildings. This technique, which is also called the infrasonic method, employs a reciprocating piston or bellows to impose a sinusoidal small change in volume inside the building
As the thermal performance of buildings continues to improve, air exchange will eventually become the dominant mechanism for building heat loss.
Although there are many simple infiltration models already available none of them have an appropriate method of dealing with what is often the single largest leak in a building; a furnace or fireplace flue.
In buildings with mechanical ventilation there are spaces with substantial pressure differences, which bring exfiltration, infiltration and transferred air between the rooms.
In this note we discuss the problem (concealed by the latter statement) of calculating the inside air temperature which varies with time and is, when not measured directly, in general not known.
IEA Annex 23 has been established in order to attempt to resolve these difficulties in relation to multizone air flow modelling.
Air Infiltration in Norwegian buildings has been an unknown parameter. This paper is based on results from measurements in nine different buildings in Norway.