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Air-tightness of US. Dwellings

Sherman, M., Dickerhoff, D.
1994
"The Role of Ventilation", proceedings of 15th AIVC Conference, held Buxton, UK, 27-30 September 1994, Volume 1, pp225-234

Sherman, M., Dickerhoff, D., (1994), "Air-tightness of US. Dwellings", "The Role of Ventilation", proceedings of 15th AIVC Conference, held Buxton, UK, 27-30 September 1994, Volume 1, pp225-234.
Abstract:
Blower Doors are used to measure the air tightness and air leakage of building envelopes. As existing dwellings in the United States are ventilated primarily through leaks in the building shell (i.e., infiltration) rather than by whole-house mechanical ventilation systems, quantification of air-tightness data is critical in order to answer the following kinds questions: What is the Construction Quality of the Building Envelope? Where are the Air Leakage Pathways? How Tight is the Building? Tens of thousands of unique fan pressurization measurements have been made of U.S. dwellings over the past decade; LBL has collected the available data into its air leakage database. This report documents what is in that database and then uses that data to determine relevant leakage characteristics in the U.S. housing stock in terms of region, age, construction type and quality.

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Sherman, M.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta Edmonton, AB Canada
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  5. Building airtightness: research and practice
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  7. Multizone age-of-air analysis
  8. On the estimation of multizone ventilation rates from tracer gas measurements
  9. Residential ventilation and energy characteristics
  10. Selecting Whole-House Ventilation Strategies To Meet Proposed Ashrae Standard 62.2: Energy Cost Considerations
  11. Tracer-gas techniques for measuring ventilation in a single zone
  12. Uncertainties in fan pressurization measurements
  13. Uncertainty in air flow calculations using tracer gas measurements  
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