Air leakage of U.S. homes: model prediction
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Posting Date | 15 April 2010Publication Date | 2008
Country | North America
Geographic Coverage | International
Theme | Air conditioning, cooling, ventilation, air infiltration, Residential buildings, Calculation, simulation
Type of publication | Report
Publisher | AIVC
Number pages | 76
Submitted by Gaelle Guyot (CETE de lyon)
Source Languages | English
Air leakage of U.S. homes: model prediction
Air tightness is an important property of building envelopes. It is a key factor in determining infiltration and related wall-performance properties such as indoor air quality, maintainability and moisture balance. Air leakage in U.S. houses consumes roughly 1/3 of the HVAC energy but provides most of the ventilation used to control IAQ. The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has been gathering residential air leakage data from many sources and now has a database of more than 100,000 raw measurements. This paper uses a model developed from that database in conjunction with US Census Bureau data for estimating air leakage as a function of location throughout the US.
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