Indoor Environmental Quality Analysis for Optimizing Energy Consumptions Varying Air Ventilation Rates

the impact of optimizing energy consumption on indoor air quality case study: educational building

introduction reducing and optimizing energy consumption and consequently environmental pollution reductions, besides improving building performance providing occupants comfort conditions, make the building's concept closer to the concept of green building and sustainability. once the decision to build green has been made, one of the first steps in the green design process is to establish f...

Ventilation and Air Quality in Indoor Ice Skating Arenas

There are thousands of indoor ice rink arenas in the United States, Canada, and Europe. The combustion byproducts from the fuel powered ice resurfacing equipment impose a potential health risk to both athletes and spectators. A field survey of ten ice rink arenas in Greater Boston and Halifax, Nova Scotia indicates that the fuel type used by the resurfacer as well as the air exchange rate, the ...

Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality in New Homes

Building Regulations in England and Wales require that there is adequate provision for ventilation in new homes and guidance on meeting the requirement is primarily based on the need to control moisture. The guidance was last amended in 1995 and as part of the preparation for a further review BRE undertook a study of ventilation and indoor air quality in homes in England built since 1995. The m...

Energy saving potential and repercussions on indoor air quality of demand controlled residential ventilation strategies

Ventilation is ambiguously related to the energy saving rationale originating from the mitigation of global warming, the reaching of peak oil or health concerns related to fossil fuel burning. Since it makes up for about half of the energy consumption in well insulated buildings, it is an attractive target for energy saving measures. However, simply reducing ventilation rates has unwanted reper...

Air-conditioning: Energy Consumption and Environmental Quality