Air Change Rate and Airtightness in Buildings
Author : Max Howard Sherman
Publisher : ASTM International
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 39,70 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Buildings
ISBN : 0803114516
Building Air Change Rate and Infiltration Measurements
Author : Peter King
Publisher : ASTM International
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,82 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780803106079
Book Description
Building Ventilation
Author : Mat Santamouris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 20,75 MB
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1136570721
Book Description
Ensuring optimum ventilation performance is a vital part of building design. Prepared by recognized experts from Europe and the US, and published in association with the International Energy Agency's Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (AIVC), this authoritative work provides organized, classified and evaluated information on advances in the key areas of building ventilation, relevant to all building types. Complexities in airflow behaviour, climatic influences, occupancy patterns and pollutant emission characteristics make selecting the most appropriate ventilation strategy especially difficult. Recognizing such complexities, the editors bring together expertise on each key issue. From components to computer tools, this book offers detailed coverage on design, analysis and performance, and is an important and comprehensive publication in this field. Building Ventilation will be an invaluable reference for professionals in the building services industry, architects, researchers (including postgraduate students) studying building service engineering and HVAC, and anyone with a role in energy-efficient building design.
2012 International Fire Code Commentary
Author : International Code Council
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,80 MB
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Fire prevention
ISBN : 9781609830663
Book Description
When the technical requirements of the 2012 INTERNATIONAL FIRE CODE (IFC) aren't enough, look no further than the 2012 INTERNATIONAL FIRE CODE COMMENTARY. In the tradition of the other titles in the International Code Council's highly successful Code Commentary series, the book includes the complete text of the 2012 International Fire Code, and presents it alongside detailed, in-depth commentaries. These commentaries help users to navigate critical IFC requirements, explaining why they were developed, their implications, and the problems that can result when they are not followed properly.This book is a must-have for any code official, engineer, architect, inspector, plans examiner, contractor, or firefighter seeking a solid foundation in the 2012 IFC and its applications.
Ventilation of Buildings
Author : H.B. Awbi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 16,85 MB
Release : 2004-06-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1134489625
Book Description
Hazim Awbi's Ventilation of Buildings has become established as the definitive text on the subject. This new, thoroughly revised, edition builds on the basic principles of the original text drawing in the results of considerable new research in the field. A new chapter on natural ventilation is also added and recent developments in ventilation concepts and room air distribution are also considered. The text is intended for the practitioner in the building services industry, the architect, the postgraduate student undertaking courses or research in HVAC, building services engineering, or building environmental engineering, and the undergraduate studying building services as a major subject. Readers are assumed to be familiar with the basic principles of fluid flow and heat transfer and some of the material requires more advanced knowledge of partial differential equations which describe the turbulent flow and heat transfer processes of fluids. The book is both a presentation of the practical issues that are needed for modern ventilation system design and a survey of recent developments in the subject
Chemical Sensitivity and Sick-Building Syndrome
Author : Yukio Yanagisawa
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 15,34 MB
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1351848518
Book Description
Written by multidisciplinary experts in medicine, chemistry, and architecture, this book examines chemical sensitivity (CS). In 15 chapters fitted to 15 lectures, it discusses not only the medical explanation, but also the environmental factors of this hypersensitive reaction, such as chemistry and architectural aspects. The book overviews pollution-induced diseases such as Minamata Disease. It also points out the similarity of modern hypersensitivity syndromes to historical pollution diseases from the viewpoints of not only natural scientific aspects, but also social understanding of the disease.
Ventilation and Airflow in Buildings
Author : Claude-Alain Roulet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 40,56 MB
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1136549099
Book Description
Energy efficiency in buildings requires, among other things, that ventilation be appropriately dimensioned: too much ventilation wastes energy, and insufficient ventilation leads to poor indoor air quality and low comfort. Studies have shown that ventilation systems seldom function according to their commissioned design. They have also shown that airflow measurement results are essential in improving a ventilation system. This key handbook explains why ventilation in buildings should be measured and describes how to measure it, giving applied examples for each measurement method. The book will help building physicists and ventilation engineers to properly commission ventilation systems and appropriately diagnose ventilation problems throughout the life of a building. Drawing on over 20 years of experience and the results of recent international research projects, this is the definitive guide to diagnosing airflow patterns within buildings.
Research in Building Physics
Author : J. Carmeliet
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 14,62 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789058095657
Book Description
This text provides a broad view of the research performed in building physics at the start of the 21st century. The focus of this conference was on combined heat and mass flow in building components, performance-based design of building enclosures, energy use in buildings, sustainable construction, users' comfort and health, and the urban micro-climate.
Design and Protocol for Monitoring Indoor Air Quality
Author : Niren Laxmichand Nagda
Publisher : ASTM International
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,39 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Aerosols
ISBN : 0803111762
Book Description
The book is derived from a symposium prompted by the growing concern for air quality in homes, offices and schools, and the need for better design of investigations about indoor air quality problems and solutions. Numerous chemical and physical factors influence the indoor concentrations of contaminants. The multiplicity of these factors makes the investigation design process complex. So, well-conceived designs and protocols form a crucial starting point for successful measurement programs. "Design" of a study relates to developing a general strategy or approach ; "protocols" refers to specific procedures to be followed in conducting a study. This document aims to provide information on designs and protocols used in different types of indoor air quality monitoring studies and to supply learning opportunities through shared experience
Issues in Environmental Economics, Engineering, and Technology: 2013 Edition
Author :
Publisher : ScholarlyEditions
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 33,78 MB
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1490106715
Book Description
Issues in Environmental Economics, Engineering, and Technology: 2013 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ book that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Environmental Economics. The editors have built Issues in Environmental Economics, Engineering, and Technology: 2013 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Environmental Economics in this book to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Environmental Economics, Engineering, and Technology: 2013 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.
