- Author
- Persily, A. K.
- Title
- Ventilation and Building Characterization for Indoor Air Quality Investigations.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Sponsor
- Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC Department of Energy, Washington, DC
- Contract
- DW139353-13-01-0 DE-AI01-91CE21042A001
- Book or Conf
- Air Infiltration and Ventilation Center Conference, 13th. Ventilation for Energy Efficiency and Optimum Indoor Air Quality. September 15-18, 1992, Nice, France, 1-10 p., 1992
- Keywords
- ventilation | air quality | heating | air conditioning | parameters
- Abstract
- A series of parameters have been developed to describe building and HVAC characteristics of commercial buildings for use in conjunction with indoor air quality investigations. The parameters include features deemed essential to an investigation intended to obtain baseline information on a space within a building as opposed to a detailed research study or an effort to diagnose a specific problem. The building characterization includes general information on the whole building and more specific information on the space within the building that is being investigated. This so-called test space will in general be only a portion of the building, but it could be the entire building. This paper presents the building and HVAC parameters and discusses checklists developed for obtaining these parameters in the field. The checklists or forms, along with the instructions for completing the checklists, are divided into four areas, Whole Building Description, Test Space Description, HVAC System Description, and 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 test space within the building. The HVAC System Description checklists describe the HVAC system serving the test space, and the HVAC System Performance checklists cover selected performance measurements on the HVAC system.