Spectrophotometer to measure reflectance and transmittance of building envelope materials of solar radiation at difference wavelength
Updates on 1) Principal component analysis as an multivariate analysis method for IR images; 2) BIPV and solar energy for buildings; 3) housing in the Canadian north, Nunavut.
Updates on renewable energy integrated into buildings: PV, PV/T, BIPV, BIPV/T, storage, passive, and other sources.
Focuses: infrared thermography (IRT) and PCA; also on solar energy for building, insulation and advanced insulation, phase change material
The references focus on solar energy utilization in building: photovoltaics, passive solar, daylighting, glazing and windows, etc; also on thermography, building assessment, sustainability
Some updates: Venetian blinds in windows and glazing
Reference on infrared cameras and thermography
Some updates
Renewable energies, fenestration testing, etc.
Added references on technologies related to glazing and curtainwall.
Format is updated for reference items. Moisture buffering (recent as well as old papers), cautios articles on LEED buildings, solar energy utilization in buildings
Added some references on GUM--guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement, tracer gas measurement, indoor air flow
References added to several areas.
References cover moisture and molds
A few publications on green ans sustainability are included; several papers on material emission and MVOC are added.
A few publications on green ans sustainability are included; several papers on material emission and MVOC are added.
Papers added on GUM--Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement; Green Building and LEED; Renewable energy in building
Publication related to solar energy, PV, indoor solar simulators.
With the advance in measurement technology since mid-80s, sensors can go on wireless and on the networks. A few references are added to this database on the general topic of measurements and building/constructions. Other sysmtems include: power line communication (PLC, X-10), bus line communication and radio frequency (RF) communication.
Some update
References related to: buoyancy induced air movement, frequency characteristics of air flow, uncertainty analysis, thermal comfort related to turbulence, etc.
Little update
Some infrequent, irregular updates
Some infrequent, irregular updates
Little update
Added reference from top 25 articles composed by ScienceDirect.
Some updates
Regular updates
Regular update
Happy New Year. Some updates to various areas. Notably, the Lstiburek and Carmody, 1991, Moisture Control Handbook: new low-rise, residential construction is online, courtesy of
ORNL
Mold grows on glassfiber insulation, due to use of organics during production or due to dust settlement on the insulation.
Some updates on publications related to sampling of airborne mold spores that come from within the building envelope.
Update on modeling and measurement of air flow in indoor environments.
Back to regular updates
Few update.
Update from various sources, mainly from Concordia University electronic journals.
Great new. The CRDRBE is moved to encs site (Engineering and Computer Sciences of Concordia University)
Regular monthly update.
Regular monthly update.
Regular monthly update.
Regular monthly update.
Regular monthly update.
Some updates.
No update. Our web space is approaching the limit (used 49.5MB of the allotted 50 MB of disk space). No significant update will be issued until more space is found. Our apology to every user.
Regular monthly update.
A few updates to references and external web links.
Add status icons for external web links to show whether a link is broken or not.
Publications on particle transports through buildings and envelopes
Some additions.
Some update.
eSim2002
Added some useful web links.
Regular updates.
Regular updates.
Some additions to the database on: research related to moisture and moisture management.
VOC, MVOC, and how to model their VOC transport through building envelopes
Not much additions this month
Regular update. Add web resources to the site (check it out).
Monthly update; MEWS recent release by IRC; fungal spores, spore sampling, effects on health; microtoxins of spores; associations among wetness, moldy house, fungi and mold, and health;
Monthly update; improved the site presentation; add 6th Symposium on Building Physicsin the Nordic Countries, in Trondheim (BPNordic), MEWS-NRC/IRC , Thermal Envelope and Building Science journal, mold-health-building, and more.
Reference related to Indoor Air Quality from IA-2002 conference (Conference: IAQ) and Journal of Indoor Air; embodied energy and life cycle assessment (LCA)
References related to building codes, performance code, etc.
Update on issues related to sustainability and green buildings. Also added are: ozone and Montreal Protocol, greenhouse gases and Kyoto Protocol, etc.
Regular monthly update
Regular monthly update.
Regular monthly update.
Many web links seemed not working in recent check. This is due to the inherent, ever change nature of the Internet, and the trend that many sites are converting to paid services from free information.
Regular monthly update for March 2002
Regular monthly update for February 2002
Developed the Lists of References.
Regular monthly update.
Regular monthly update.
Regular monthly update.
Regular monthly update.
We started to move this site to a new location on the ENCS server at Concordia University.