LoginSmart ventilation in residential buildings has gained rising attention recently for the benefits of reducing energy consumption and improving indoor environmental quality.
44th AIVC - 12th TightVent - 10th venticool Conference - Dublin, Ireland - 9-10 October 2024
The 44th AIVC Conference "Retrofitting the Building Stock: Challenges and Opportunities for Indoor Environmental Quality", was held in Dublin, Ireland on 9-10 October 2024. Contains 127 papers and/or summaries.
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Performance of smart ventilation in residential buildings: a literature review | 2024 | English | 11 pp
Trends in Indoor Environmental Quality in Non-Domestic Energy-Efficient Buildings in Ireland: The BENEFIT Project | 2024 | English | 3 pp
The BENEFIT project seeks to assess indoor environmental quality and occupant comfort in energy efficient non-domestic Irish buildings with the aim of developing ventilation guidelines for future retrofits and new builds.
Filling the Indoor Air Quality Data Gap: Research Challenges and Opportunities | 2024 | English | 3 pp
The rapid growth in the use of low-cost sensors for indoor air quality (IAQ) measurement campaigns, following the COVID-19 pandemic, has significantly improved public awareness of ventilation and IAQ in buildings.
Project RESILIENCE set out to examine overheating in a variety of building archetypes, but also examined several aspects of overheating related to the tools that are used, the weather data that has been employed in dynamic simul
There is an increasing need to consider and evaluate the effect of existing ambient warmness on current low energy buildings to determine if current guidelines and standards are robust or resilient in the face of projected futur
Project RESILIENCE set out to examine overheating risk in a variety of non-residential building archetypes, but also examined several aspects of both overheating risk metrics and indoor thermal resilience evaluation criteria.
Thermal comfort of adolescent children in classrooms: Some reflections on the state-of-the-art | 2024 | English | 3 pp
Thermal comfort of adolescents (10-17 year olds) in school classrooms is an important but less explored topic. The classroom thermal environment impacts students comfort, learning, and health.
Cognitive well-being in classrooms: A holistic investigation into Indoor Environmental Quality in New Zealand primary schools | 2024 | English | 12 pp
Children spend about 80-90% of their time indoors, making the quality of indoor environments (IEQ) crucial, particularly since children are more susceptible to pollutants due to their developing bodies and higher relative air in
Achieving suitable airflow rate in New Zealand classrooms: a CFD approach to inform on potential retrofitting solutions | 2024 | English | 14 pp
During the COVID-19 pandemic, besides sanitising, masking, and increasing social distancing, opening classroom windows was the NZ Ministry of Education's main requirement for reopening schools.
Application strategies and effectiveness of CO2 signal lights for improving indoor air quality in classrooms | 2024 | English | 15 pp
Improving air quality in existing classrooms can be difficult if retrofitting a mechanical ventilation system is considered too expensive or cannot be implemented due to other reasons, e.g., heritage protection.
Impact of filter class and airflow control on the indoor airborne particles in a nursery school | 2024 | English | 10 pp
This study focuses on the impact of filtration efficiency level and airflow control, based on CO2, on indoor air quality described by particle concentration in an urban low energy consumption nursery school during an autumn and a winter period.
Particulate matter in UK school classrooms – building an evidence base for improving classroom air quality | 2024 | English | 3 pp
Identifying factors that affect classroom concentrations of particulate matter is important for enabling effective mitigation of the associated negative health and cognitive effects, of which children can be especially susceptib
The Influence of Outdoor Conditions on Indoor Air Quality: Case Study of Norwegian Schools | 2024 | English | 11 pp
The project aims to investigate the degree of influence that outdoor conditions may have on the indoor environment in Norwegian schools.
Uncertainty of IAQ and energy performance schemes for residential smart ventilation | 2024 | English | 11 pp
In high-efficient residential buildings, energy use due to ventilation can reach 60% of the total building.
This work quantifies the chronic harm caused by long-term exposure to common indoor air contaminants in dwellings located in the global north. Two methods are used to compute DALYs.
Methodology to define new performance indicator for ventilation regulation in France | 2024 | English | 5 pp
In France, the regulation context for ventilation is based on the decree « Arreté de 1982 » which is a prescriptive regulation, requiring extracted flowrate in every utility room.
Assessing IAQ in existing residential buildings within a performance-based regulatory framework through a predictive model | 2024 | English | 3 pp
In many countries, the traditional method of ventilating dwellings involved natural ventilation, based on the operation of windows and high levels of infiltration through the building envelope, particularly through windows and w
The IAQ performance-based regulation in Spain: description, identified problems for its application, and foreseen changes | 2024 | English | 8 pp
Efforts must be made to promote the use of efficient ventilation systems in buildings with the aim of reducing energy demand, as ventilation is a major source of energy loss.
The importance of performance-based regulations for residential ventilation. State of the art | 2024 | English | 3 pp
The context of climate change and the need of saving energy has required rethinking the ventilation and the air change rates in buildings, because of their increased impact on thermal losses.
Optimizing the design of retirement homes concerning the indoor environment, energy efficiency, and climate change resiliency | 2024 | English | 3 pp
This study explored the design optimization possibilities for Danish retirement homes while considering an increased risk of overheating due to elevated temperatures imposed by climate change.