Summary
As people spend the majority of their times in indoor spaces, providing them with comfortable & clean environments is crucial for their wellbeing and productivity. This can be achieved through the implementation of Smart Ventilation designs that are able to continually adjust themselves depending on the dynamically changing indoor/outdoor conditions, to provide good IAQ while minimizing energy use, discomfort and noise. Current practices in ventilation design are driven by minimum requirements of IAQ, energy use and investment costs, rendering them conservative and inefficient. At present, no method exists that allows to select the most optimal system & room layout based on a coherent set of indicators (IEQ, energy use, comfort, resilience, LCCs...).
"Towards Smart Ventilation in Mid-sized buildings" project, financed by VLAIO aims to meet these needs by developing a performance-based method that approaches the design of Smart Ventilation systems as a whole, driven by performance assessment and optimization during the whole life-cycle of the system. The project also aims to improve the energy efficiency of buildings and its systems, to achieve a decarbonised EU building stock, taking a step forward towards a climate neutral Europe by 2050.
"Towards Smart Ventilation in Mid-sized buildings" project, financed by VLAIO aims to meet these needs by developing a performance-based method that approaches the design of Smart Ventilation systems as a whole, driven by performance assessment and optimization during the whole life-cycle of the system. The project also aims to improve the energy efficiency of buildings and its systems, to achieve a decarbonised EU building stock, taking a step forward towards a climate neutral Europe by 2050.
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To achieve the project's short and long term goals, it has been divided into four WPs that interact with each other to define, develop and aggregate performance-based metrics and use them to optimize system design
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The focus of this project is the Mid-sized building stock, including both new and renovated buildings (i.e., schools, apartment blocks, office building, small-scale health care facilities...). To demonstrate the developed performance toolbox, different case studies were selected
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The aim of this project is also to disseminate knowledge and make it available to both academic and industrial audiences.
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"A transition in design and construction of buildings to reduce their embodied emissions and to increase the energy efficiency of their operation"
