Facilities: Volume 24 Issue 11/12

Subjects:

Table of contents - Special Issue: Modelling, Assessment and Control of Indoor Air Quality for FM Professionals

Guest Editors: Abbas Ali Elmualim, Yinping Zhang

Failure of a control strategy for a hybrid air‐conditioning and wind catchers/towers system at Bluewater shopping malls in Kent, UK

Abbas Ali Elmualim

To evaluate the control strategy for a hybrid natural ventilation wind catchers and air‐conditioning system and to assess the contribution of wind catchers to indoor air…

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Air diffusion performance index of high sidewall line diffuser in a room with perimeter heating load

Seok‐Youn Kang, Seung‐Chul Lee, Hoseon Yoo, Jae‐Heon Lee

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of the perimeter heating load about the air diffusion performance index (ADPI) and propose a selection guide for proper line…

The risk management for indoor air pollution caused by formaldehyde in housing: The historical perspectives on early warnings and actions

K. Azuma, I. Uchiyama, K. Ikeda

In order to clarify the determining features of approaches adopted in policies for regulating indoor air pollution, this paper analyzes case studies of the approaches taken, in…

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Developments of the emission classification of building materials

Laura Sariola, Esko Kukkonen

To reach building owners, architects, designers, builders and manufacturers of materials and building components in order to achieve good indoor air quality (IAQ).

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Causes and prevention of symptom complaints in office buildings: Distilling the experience of indoor environmental quality investigators

Mark J. Mendell, Terry Brennan, Lee Hathon, J. David Odom, Francis J. Offerman, Bradley H. Turk, Kenneth M. Wallingford, Richard C. Diamond, William J. Fisk

The goal of this project was to develop practical strategies for preventing building‐related symptoms in office buildings, based on the experience of those who investigate…

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Criteria for the indoor environment for energy performance of buildings: A new European standard

Bjarne W. Olesen, Olli Seppanen, Atze Boerstra

To provide input data to design and energy performance calculations of buildings and ventilation, heating, cooling and lighting systems.

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A new national design code for indoor air environment of sports buildings

Xiaojun Ma, Yiwen Jian, Yue Cao

The purpose is to present parameters of a new design code, which is intended to control the indoor air environment for sports buildings in China.

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ISSN:

0263-2772

Online date, start – end:

1983

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Dr Joseph Lai
  • Dr Sarel Lavy