Towards Smart Ventilation in Midsized Buildings.

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.

Keywords:ENERGY RETROFITTING, DESIGN, VENTILATION

Disciplines:Building technology, Energy in buildings and built environments, Computer aided engineering, simulation and design

Project type:Collaboration project