LoginThe emissions of building materials like volatile organic compounds and indoor airbornecontaminants such as environmental tobacco smoke expose occupants to hazardowsubstances.
19th AIVC Conference - Oslo, Norway - 28-30 September 1998
The 19th AIVC Conference, Ventilation Technologies in Urban Areas, was held in Oslo, Norway, 28-30 September 1998.
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Building performance evaluation for indoor air quality using occupant contaminant inhalation and attribution to contaminant sources. | 1998 | English
On the time-dependant efficiency of building ventilation on the indoor air quality in a medium sized urban area in Greece. | 1998 | English
From an air pollution study in a medium-sized, seaside town in Central Greece (Volos) it wasfound that some common air pollutants (CO, NO, NOx, SO,, 0,), whose emissions are connectedto activities and conditions that reveal some characteristics of
The present paper discusses issues related to the potential of natuml ventilation techniques whenapplied to urban environment and in particular to buildings located in canyons.
Heat recovery in ventilation systems for office buildings in cold climates is necessary for tworeasons:1. To obtain acceptable indoor thermal comfort by preheating of fresh air,2.
The Finnish Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate has prepared a proposal for the classification of the cleanliness of new ventilation systems and components.
Analytical solutions are derived for calculating natural ventilation flow rates in a single-zone building with two openings when no thermal mass is present.
Modelling of indoor pollutant concentrations that varies in time can be a useful tool forestimation of the strength of internal sources and sinks. Usually the modelling has beencarried out using one zone, i.e.
Natural ventilation in office-type buildings - results and conclusions of monitoring activities. | 1998 | English
Since the beginning of this decade, natural ventilation in office buildings has been receiving specific interest. There are two sorts of application. Natural ventilation can be a strategy for indoor air quality control.
The Swedish Parliament decided 1991 that ventilation systems in all non-industrial buildingsshould be regularly inspected in intervals from 2 to 9 years, shortest for schools, hospitals etcand longest for natural ventilated flats.
The Ventilation Standard HASS-102 of The Society of Heating, Air-conditioning andSanitary Engineere of Japan (SHASE Japan) was revised in November, 1997. The title of therevised standard is Ventilation Standard for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality.
Experimental impact valuation of fouling on extract air terminal devices performances: an accelerated artificial fouling approach. | 1998 | English
A humidity controlled air flow terminal device works as a humidity sensor : its openingsurface varies according to relative humidity inside a room in order to match air flow rate topollution.
Ventilation strategies for thermal performance improvement of an attached sunspace. | 1998 | English
In this paper ventilation strategies are examined in order to improve the thermal performanceof an attached sunspace of a two-storey semi-detached house in the area of Athens Greece.The ventilation strategies examined are cross and single-sided ve
This paper gives an overview of the EC NatVent (TM) project on 'Overcoming Technical Barriers to Low Energy Natural Ventilation in Office Type Buildings in Moderate and Cold Climates' which has been carried out under the European Commission Joule
Comparison of IAQ performances of French ventilation systems in residential buildings. | 1998 | English
Until now, there is no widely accepted way to express any index for this purpose and takinginto account the large variety of possible pollutants.
A wind tunnel study into the location of natural ventilation air intakes in urban areas. | 1998 | English
Ventilation of buildings in urban areas may result in high internal concentrations of traffic pollutants if air intakes are positioned where external concentrations are highest.
Improvement of indoor climate and ventilation system in a renovated multistoried residential building. | 1998 | English
The goal of this project was to improve the quality of indoor air in a multistoried residentialbuilding of 81 flats built in 1960. The building is located in a heavily built urban area ofHelsinki.
The paper presents further then an integrated model the supporting methodology that allowsto assess natural urban ventilation conditions both outside and inside constructions.Though some particular aspects arid procedures can be complex and time c
Natural ventilation by thermal buoyancy with several openings and with temperature stratification. | 1998 | English
Based on the fundamental flow equations, a set of formulas is derived for air velocities, temperature differences and ventilation rates in relation to number of openings, opening areas, net heat input, building geometry, and temperature stratifica
Filtering and humidity measurement in exhaust air of baths and toilets without windows. | 1998 | English
The inadequate dissipation of hurnidity fiom living spaces and bathrooms has become asignificant problem area in recent years.
The design of natural, including passive, ventilation systems assumes one of two genericforms: the nasty design problem where the designer seeks to size ventilation openings givenclimatic conditions and thermal comfort criteria or the nice design