Abstract
A so-called Engineering Research Centre on Indoor Climate and
Energy has been established in 1998 at the Technical University of
Denmark (DTU). For the first five years the centre is supported by
the Danish Technical Research Council by almost 8 million DKK per
year and by DTU by 6 permanent academic positions. It is
anticipated that the research council's support for the centre
will be prolonged for another five years, during which period it
will be gradually reduced and the centre will be indulged as a
permanent activity at DTU.The ambition of the research is to
extend the knowledge of the factors that influence the well being
of occupants in the indoor climate. The perspective of this
knowledge should be widened such that it will be possible to carry
out an integral optimisation of a high indoor air quality in
durable, low energy consuming buildings.While located at DTU, the
centre will maintain close contact with international, not the
least Nordic, research groups by facilitating possibilities for
exchange visits and guest positions. The centre will be very
active in educating new Ph.D.'s.Next to presenting the setting,
the paper gives an overview of the research tasks within the
centre. The main themes are:· Continued research in human
perception of indoor air quality, especially by identification of
the factors that may cause annoyance to the occupants. Such
annoyances may be emissions from materials or biological activity,
and is often linked to the dampness of buildings.· Studies on air
distribution in indoor spaces. Particularly, using CFD models, it
should be possible to study the local conditions in the vicinity
of the human body.· Modelling and experimental investigation of
humidity transfer and energy consumption in buildings. The
research aims at establishing complete modelling capabilities of
the hygrothermal conditions in buildings with their spaces,
building materials, furnishing, activity of occupants, and
influence from exterior conditions.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Building Physics in the Nordic Countries |
| Place of Publication | Göteborg |
| Publisher | Chalmers University of Technology and Swedish National Testing and Research Institute |
| Publication date | 1999 |
| Pages | 621-628 |
| Publication status | Published - 1999 |
| Event | 5th Symposium on Building Physics in the Nordic Countries - Gothenburg, Sweden Duration: 24 Aug 1999 → 26 Aug 1999 Conference number: 5 |
Conference
| Conference | 5th Symposium on Building Physics in the Nordic Countries |
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| Number | 5 |
| Country/Territory | Sweden |
| City | Gothenburg |
| Period | 24/08/1999 → 26/08/1999 |