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Natural Ventilation in Built Environment

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Glossary

Advanced natural ventilation system (ANV):

Integration of basic natural ventilation strategies such as cross ventilation and stack effect with smart controls.

Air changes per hour (ACH):

The volumetric flow rate of supply air, divided by the volume of the ventilated space.

BEMS:

Building energy management system.

BREEAM:

Building research establishment environmental assessment method – UK origin.

Exfiltration/infiltration:

Air flows through unintended leakages out/into buildings.

Hybrid ventilation:

Combined natural and mechanical ventilation (also called mixed-mode ventilation).

Indoor air quality (IAQ):

Broadly defined by the purity of the air but often CO2 is used as an indicator.

Mixed-mode ventilation:

See hybrid ventilation.

Natural ventilation:

Use of natural forces, i.e., pressure differences generated by wind or air temperature, to introduce and distribute outdoor air into or out of buildings.

Night cooling:

The use of night air to cool the building using wind towers...

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    Tong Yang

  2. School of Construction Management and Engineering, University of Reading, Reading, UK

    Derek J. Clements-Croome

  3. School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

    Derek J. Clements-Croome

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Yang, T., Clements-Croome, D.J. (2018). Natural Ventilation in Built Environment. In: Meyers, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2493-6_488-3

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