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Optimised indoor air quality and energy saving strategies for quality buildings in Mediterranean climates: compatible objectives with comfort and environment issues?

Author(s) : MALHEIRO L.

Type of article: Article

Summary

The sick building syndrome is a growing concern in terms of health and an important factor in occupancy behaviour. The building sector takes up more than 35% of the global primary energy use in developed countries. Those two main highlights in building services design are closely related, demanding an accurate balance between strategies focused on energy consumption reduction and indoor air quality improvement, where controlled natural cross ventilation potential must be considered as an important contribution. Designers must be considered as an important contribution. Designers must be aware of these facts and integrate, in the final solution for buildings, the global environment concerns and comfort standards leading all together to the quality building label. The aim of this paper is to establish, in a consistent way, that those main aspects are compatible between them and can play an important role in comfort and environment issues.

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  • Original title: Optimised indoor air quality and energy saving strategies for quality buildings in Mediterranean climates: compatible objectives with comfort and environment issues?
  • Record ID : 2004-1880
  • Languages: English
  • Source: REHVA Journal - n. 4
  • Publication date: 2003/12
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.

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