Submitted by Maria.Kapsalaki on Fri, 03/01/2024 - 12:14
Occupants use windows to control their thermal comfort and indoor air quality (IAQ). However, occupants often have to make a compromise between thermal, acoustic and visual comfort, IAQ and energy use for space conditioning. Moreover, they are not only looking for good indoor environmental quality, but also for their needs for security and privacy.
We're excited to announce that the recordings and presentation slides from the AIVC & venticool webinar "Exploring window opening behaviour for optimal cooling and thermal comfort", which took place on March 26, 2024, are now accessible online here.
Submitted by Maria.Kapsalaki on Wed, 07/02/2014 - 12:05
In the past 20 years, better representation of occupants’ window operation in building performance simulation has received great attention, and several useful window opening behaviour models have been developed. Beyond these, this paper describes the development of window opening behaviour models based on alternative occupant classification approaches, namely, modelling occupants’ window operation actions as a whole; modelling actions based on sub-groups (i.e.
Indoor air quality was monitored at two schools in Essex, UK (located on the same site) during the week 3--7 November 1997. The objective was to determine whether the ventilation rates within the buildings were adequate to provide acceptable air quality to the occupants. Airborne carbon dioxide concentration was determined using continuous infrared detectors. A class base in each school was monitored for a two-day period. Occupancy patterns and window/door opening were observed during the first day of each period. Air temperature was also recorded.
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 ventilation through the verticalwindows of the sunspace. Simulations were conducted implementing multizone ventilationmodel COMIS coupled with the thermal simulation model Suncode.
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