Blower door tests of a group of identical flats in a new student accommodation in the Arctic
A new student accommodation for engineering students “Apisseq” was built in the town of Sisimiut, Greenland in 2010. Its purpose is not only to provide accommodation for students. Thanks to its complex monitoring system it enables researchers to evaluate the building’s energy performance and indoor...
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ftdtupubl:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/9981a165-003d-4e40-a631-22103487eb9c 2023-05-15T14:24:40+02:00 Blower door tests of a group of identical flats in a new student accommodation in the Arctic Kotol, Martin Rode, Carsten Vahala, Jan 2012 application/pdf https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/publications/9981a165-003d-4e40-a631-22103487eb9c https://backend.orbit.dtu.dk/ws/files/12801305/prod21350163994197.Blower_door_tests_of_a_group_of_identical_flats_in_a_new_student_accommodation_in_the_Arctic.pdf eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Kotol , M , Rode , C & Vahala , J 2012 , ' Blower door tests of a group of identical flats in a new student accommodation in the Arctic ' , Paper presented at 33rd AIVC conference – 2nd TightVent conference , Copenhagen , Denmark , 10/10/2012 - 11/10/2012 . /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/sustainable_cities_and_communities SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities conferenceObject 2012 ftdtupubl 2022-08-14T08:13:17Z A new student accommodation for engineering students “Apisseq” was built in the town of Sisimiut, Greenland in 2010. Its purpose is not only to provide accommodation for students. Thanks to its complex monitoring system it enables researchers to evaluate the building’s energy performance and indoor air quality (IAQ) as well as performance of some single components. In summer 2012 a blower door test was performed on all 37 living units out of which 33 are identical single room flats and 4 are larger double room flats. The purpose was to evaluate the air tightness of the envelope and to find out how much the flats differ from each other in terms of air tightness. The overall average specific leakage measured was w 50 = 2.05 l/(s·m 2 ) of heated floor area corresponding to an air change n 50 of 2.96 h -1 . Furthermore, the results showed that the difference between the most and the least tight flat is as high as 400%. This result is without consideration of one particular flat which had the extreme result of being 940% as leaky as the unit with the highest air tightness. The reasons for such poor air tightness are lack of the installation gap between the vapour barrier and the inner wall, and insufficient connections of the vapour barrier to the interior walls as explained in the paper. The large variation in results can be attributed to insufficient consideration of the importance of airtighness during construction of some parts of the building – despite of an intent to make a rather air tight building. Conference Object Arctic Arctic Greenland Sisimiut Technical University of Denmark: DTU Orbit Arctic Greenland Sisimiut ENVELOPE(-53.674,-53.674,66.939,66.939) The Flats ENVELOPE(-56.948,-56.948,51.467,51.467) |
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A new student accommodation for engineering students “Apisseq” was built in the town of Sisimiut, Greenland in 2010. Its purpose is not only to provide accommodation for students. Thanks to its complex monitoring system it enables researchers to evaluate the building’s energy performance and indoor air quality (IAQ) as well as performance of some single components. In summer 2012 a blower door test was performed on all 37 living units out of which 33 are identical single room flats and 4 are larger double room flats. The purpose was to evaluate the air tightness of the envelope and to find out how much the flats differ from each other in terms of air tightness. The overall average specific leakage measured was w 50 = 2.05 l/(s·m 2 ) of heated floor area corresponding to an air change n 50 of 2.96 h -1 . Furthermore, the results showed that the difference between the most and the least tight flat is as high as 400%. This result is without consideration of one particular flat which had the extreme result of being 940% as leaky as the unit with the highest air tightness. The reasons for such poor air tightness are lack of the installation gap between the vapour barrier and the inner wall, and insufficient connections of the vapour barrier to the interior walls as explained in the paper. The large variation in results can be attributed to insufficient consideration of the importance of airtighness during construction of some parts of the building – despite of an intent to make a rather air tight building. |
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Kotol , M , Rode , C & Vahala , J 2012 , ' Blower door tests of a group of identical flats in a new student accommodation in the Arctic ' , Paper presented at 33rd AIVC conference – 2nd TightVent conference , Copenhagen , Denmark , 10/10/2012 - 11/10/2012 . |
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