An Investigation on Natural Window Ventilation: Improving Indoor Air Quality and Energy Efficiency in an Office Building
With the increment in time spent indoors, the contingence between building occupants and indoor air pollution has been lengthened. Accordingly, indoor air quality became a significant factor since the poor conditions can influence the occupants’ health and efficiency. Indoor air quality is mainly c...
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With the increment in time spent indoors, the contingence between building occupants and indoor air pollution has been lengthened. Accordingly, indoor air quality became a significant factor since the poor conditions can influence the occupants’ health and efficiency. Indoor air quality is mainly concerned with physical and thermophysical factors in conditioned environments and is related to occupants’ satisfaction levels on a variety of variables such as fresh air adequacy, air temperature, odor, humidity, and air velocity. This paper aims to investigate natural ventilation occupant-control methods to improve indoor air quality and increase building energy efficiency considering clean air intake levels and indoor air temperature levels. For this, variables related to climatic conditions, ventilation systems, and occupant’s control on window opening were investigated to provide healthy and liveable conditions. To comply with these goals, in an open-plan office building, the levels of indoor air quality were determined with the help of DesignBuilder simulation by comparing obtained values under different case modeling variations.
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| spelling | doaj-art-daa6465de4244e10ae6e55dcab91f3372025-08-20T02:42:56ZengAlanya ÜniversitesiProceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA3023-70092021-06-014110.38027/ICCAUA2021317N19An Investigation on Natural Window Ventilation: Improving Indoor Air Quality and Energy Efficiency in an Office BuildingEmine Şen0Touraj Ashrafian1Özyeğin University, Graduate School of Engineering and Science, Istanbul, TurkeyÖzyeğin University, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Istanbul, Turkey With the increment in time spent indoors, the contingence between building occupants and indoor air pollution has been lengthened. Accordingly, indoor air quality became a significant factor since the poor conditions can influence the occupants’ health and efficiency. Indoor air quality is mainly concerned with physical and thermophysical factors in conditioned environments and is related to occupants’ satisfaction levels on a variety of variables such as fresh air adequacy, air temperature, odor, humidity, and air velocity. This paper aims to investigate natural ventilation occupant-control methods to improve indoor air quality and increase building energy efficiency considering clean air intake levels and indoor air temperature levels. For this, variables related to climatic conditions, ventilation systems, and occupant’s control on window opening were investigated to provide healthy and liveable conditions. To comply with these goals, in an open-plan office building, the levels of indoor air quality were determined with the help of DesignBuilder simulation by comparing obtained values under different case modeling variations. https://journal.iccaua.com/jiccaua/article/view/229Indoor Air QualityNatural VentilationEnergy EfficiencyOffice Building |
| spellingShingle | Emine Şen Touraj Ashrafian An Investigation on Natural Window Ventilation: Improving Indoor Air Quality and Energy Efficiency in an Office Building Proceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA Indoor Air Quality Natural Ventilation Energy Efficiency Office Building |
| title | An Investigation on Natural Window Ventilation: Improving Indoor Air Quality and Energy Efficiency in an Office Building |
| title_full | An Investigation on Natural Window Ventilation: Improving Indoor Air Quality and Energy Efficiency in an Office Building |
| title_fullStr | An Investigation on Natural Window Ventilation: Improving Indoor Air Quality and Energy Efficiency in an Office Building |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Investigation on Natural Window Ventilation: Improving Indoor Air Quality and Energy Efficiency in an Office Building |
| title_short | An Investigation on Natural Window Ventilation: Improving Indoor Air Quality and Energy Efficiency in an Office Building |
| title_sort | investigation on natural window ventilation improving indoor air quality and energy efficiency in an office building |
| topic | Indoor Air Quality Natural Ventilation Energy Efficiency Office Building |
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