Indoor Air Quality Design and Control in Low-Energy Residential Buildings, International Energy Agency, EBC Annex 68, Subtask 2: Pollutant loads in residential buildings (Common exercises)

The objective of the present work was to develop Common exercises to help readers better understand and practice the theory that define a reference house with the local climate, methods, and techniques to evaluate and predict energy efficiency and indoor air quality in the buildings with the changing environment conditions which have been developed in Subtask 2 of Annex 68. The report includes three Common exercises. CE1: A procedure for the definition of reference buildings for estimating the pollution loads, IAQ and energy analysis for different countries/climates. CE2: A method and procedure of using a full-scale chamber to evaluate the effects of emission sources and sinks, ventilation and air cleaning on IAQ. CE3: Development of a procedure for estimating the parameters of mechanistic emission source models from chamber testing data. They are corresponding to Chapters 2, 3 and 5 in the final report of Subtask 2, respectively. Finally, the solutions for CE1 are presented in the Appendices of the report. The readers with appropriate research facilities are encouraged to use the procedures described in CE2 and CE3