- Author
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Persily, A. K.
- Title
- Building and HVAC Characterization for Commercial Building Indoor Air Quality Investigations.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Sponsor
- Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC
Department of Energy, Washington, DC
- Report
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NISTIR 4979,
May 1993,
143 p.
- Distribution
- AVAILABLE FROM National Technical Information Service (NTIS), Technology Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Springfield, VA 22161. Telephone: 1-800-553-6847 or 703-605-6000; Fax: 703-605-6900. Website: http://www.ntis.gov
- Keywords
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commercial buildings
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heating
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ventilation
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air conditioning
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building diagnostics
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building performance
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indoor air quality
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office buildings
- Abstract
- A series of parameters has been developed for describing building and HVAC characteristics of commercial buildings in conjunction with indoor air quality investigations. These parameters were developed in association with the activities of the Building/HVAC Team and the Steering Committee of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Building Assessment Survey and Evaluation (BASE) Program. The building and HVAC characterization includes those features considered essential to an investigation intended to obtain baseline information on a test space within a building as opposed to a detailed research study or an effort to diagnose a specific problem. The parameters include both general information on the building as well as more specific information on the space being investigated. This report consists of checklists for recording information on the building and HVAC parameters in the field, along with instructions for completing the checklists. The checklists cover four areas: A) Whole Building Description, B) Test Space Description, C) HVAC System Description, and D) HVAC System Performance. The Whole Building Description checklists provide a description of the basic features of the building being studied. The Test Space Description checklists are used to obtain more detailed information on the space within the building that is being studied, although the test space could be a whole building. The HVAC System Description checklists are used to describe the HVAC system serving the test space, and the HVAC System Performance checklists cover selected performance measurements on that HVAC system.