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Dr. Alberto Meiss
Universidad de Valladolid

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Journal article
Published: 28 July 2021 in Sustainability
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This paper describes the implementation of a series of ventilation strategies in a nursery and primary school from September 2020, when the government decided to resume the students’ face-to-face activity in the middle of a COVID scenario. Air quality and hygrothermal comfort conditions were analysed before the pandemic and compared for different ventilation configurations in a post-COVID scenario. Ventilation strategies included the protocols issued by the Public Administration, while others were developed based on the typological configuration and use of the school. Results revealed that it is advisable to implement certain strategies that reduce the risk of infection among the occupants of the spaces, without a significant decrease in hygrothermal comfort. Given the importance of maintaining better IAQ in the future within classrooms, and regarding the pre-COVID situation, these strategies may be extended beyond this pandemic period, through a simple protocol and necessary didactic package to be assumed by both teachers and students of the centre.

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Alberto Meiss; Héctor Jimeno-Merino; Irene Poza-Casado; Alfredo Llorente-Álvarez; Miguel Padilla-Marcos. Indoor Air Quality in Naturally Ventilated Classrooms. Lessons Learned from a Case Study in a COVID-19 Scenario. Sustainability 2021, 13, 8446 .

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Alberto Meiss, Héctor Jimeno-Merino, Irene Poza-Casado, Alfredo Llorente-Álvarez, Miguel Padilla-Marcos. Indoor Air Quality in Naturally Ventilated Classrooms. Lessons Learned from a Case Study in a COVID-19 Scenario. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (15):8446.

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Alberto Meiss; Héctor Jimeno-Merino; Irene Poza-Casado; Alfredo Llorente-Álvarez; Miguel Padilla-Marcos. 2021. "Indoor Air Quality in Naturally Ventilated Classrooms. Lessons Learned from a Case Study in a COVID-19 Scenario." Sustainability 13, no. 15: 8446.

Journal article
Published: 18 June 2021 in Sustainability
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Indoor air quality (IAQ) in educational buildings is a key element of the students’ well-being and academic performance. Window-opening behavior and air infiltration, generally used as the sole ventilation sources in existing educational buildings, often lead to unhealthy levels of indoor pollutants and energy waste. This paper evaluates the conditions of natural ventilation in classrooms in order to study how climate conditions affect energy waste. For that purpose, the impact of the air infiltration both on the IAQ and on the efficiency of the ventilation was evaluated in two university classrooms with natural ventilation in the Continental area of Spain. The research methodology was based on site sensors to analyze IAQ parameters such as CO2, Total Volatile Organic Compounds (TVOC), Particulate Matter (PM), and other climate parameters for a week during the cold season. Airtightness was then assessed within the classrooms and the close built environment by means of pressurization tests, and infiltration rates were estimated. The obtained results were used to set up a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model to evaluate the age of the local air and the ventilation efficiency value. The results revealed that ventilation cannot rely only on air infiltration, and, therefore, specific controlled ventilation strategies should be implemented to improve IAQ and to avoid excessive energy loss.

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Irene Poza-Casado; Raquel Gil-Valverde; Alberto Meiss; Miguel Padilla-Marcos. Impact of Air Infiltration on IAQ and Ventilation Efficiency in Higher Educational Classrooms in Spain. Sustainability 2021, 13, 6875 .

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Irene Poza-Casado, Raquel Gil-Valverde, Alberto Meiss, Miguel Padilla-Marcos. Impact of Air Infiltration on IAQ and Ventilation Efficiency in Higher Educational Classrooms in Spain. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (12):6875.

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Irene Poza-Casado; Raquel Gil-Valverde; Alberto Meiss; Miguel Padilla-Marcos. 2021. "Impact of Air Infiltration on IAQ and Ventilation Efficiency in Higher Educational Classrooms in Spain." Sustainability 13, no. 12: 6875.

Journal article
Published: 15 December 2020 in Energy and Buildings
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The energy consumption in buildings is still very high despite its reduction in recent years. Buildings’ conditioning is the main cause of this energy consumption and, in this sense, air infiltration has a great impact. The control of air infiltration is essential to achieve thermal comfort and energy efficiency. The evaluation of the global airtightness of the building envelope based on pressurization tests has been broadly used to determine the airtightness of buildings, but it cannot define the shape of air leakages. The use of thermography in combination with pressurization tools could be very useful. This paper presents the laboratory experimental measurements to obtain a three-dimensional definition of the air temperature when passing through a controlled envelope gap. The method is based on the bidimensional temperature matrix, captured by infrared (IR) thermography, that the air leakeage produces close to the gap, and depending on the configuration of the air inlet and airflow. The temperature measurement was done using a non-continuous rendering surface in order to avoid the Coanda effect that opaque surfaces cause, achieving in this way a 42% increase in the measuring accuracy.

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Raquel Gil-Valverde; Diego Tamayo-Alonso; Andrés Royuela-Del-Val; Irene Poza-Casado; Alberto Meiss; Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos. Three-dimensional characterization of air infiltration using infrared thermography. Energy and Buildings 2020, 233, 110656 .

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Raquel Gil-Valverde, Diego Tamayo-Alonso, Andrés Royuela-Del-Val, Irene Poza-Casado, Alberto Meiss, Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos. Three-dimensional characterization of air infiltration using infrared thermography. Energy and Buildings. 2020; 233 ():110656.

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Raquel Gil-Valverde; Diego Tamayo-Alonso; Andrés Royuela-Del-Val; Irene Poza-Casado; Alberto Meiss; Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos. 2020. "Three-dimensional characterization of air infiltration using infrared thermography." Energy and Buildings 233, no. : 110656.

Review
Published: 25 August 2020 in Building and Environment
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The airtightness of buildings has gained relevance in the last decade. The spread of the regulatory frameworks, the demand of stricter requirements, schemes for testing and quality control, the creation of airtightness databases and its analysis, is proof of this reality. The present review encompasses schemes developed in Europe and North America with regard to these aspects for national residential sectors. A normative framework on requirements and recommendations at the national level is compiled. Whole building airtightness databases are compared based on their structures and measurement data acquisition protocols. Gathered complementary information not directly related to testing is analysed and airtightness influencing factors importance and relationships are discussed. Weaknesses and strengths in the different aspects of the existing database setups are identified. Also, neglected or not entirely undertaken topics are pinpointed together with the suggestion of possible opportunities for future works and changes. Amongst other relevant remarks and discussions, it is concluded that the lack of uniformization in method between countries, the need for a minimum data setup, the lack of data analysis on relating the energy impact with the advancement in requirements of airtightness performance and the implemented setups are some of the main issues to address in the near future.

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Irene Poza-Casado; Vitor E.M. Cardoso; Ricardo M.S.F. Almeida; Alberto Meiss; Nuno M. M. Ramos; Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos. Residential buildings airtightness frameworks: A review on the main databases and setups in Europe and North America. Building and Environment 2020, 183, 107221 .

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Irene Poza-Casado, Vitor E.M. Cardoso, Ricardo M.S.F. Almeida, Alberto Meiss, Nuno M. M. Ramos, Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos. Residential buildings airtightness frameworks: A review on the main databases and setups in Europe and North America. Building and Environment. 2020; 183 ():107221.

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Irene Poza-Casado; Vitor E.M. Cardoso; Ricardo M.S.F. Almeida; Alberto Meiss; Nuno M. M. Ramos; Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos. 2020. "Residential buildings airtightness frameworks: A review on the main databases and setups in Europe and North America." Building and Environment 183, no. : 107221.

Articles
Published: 30 June 2020 in International Journal of Ventilation
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Addressing the airtightness of the building envelope is key to achieve thermal comfort, good performance ofventilation systems and to avoid excessive energy consumption. Previous studies have estimated an energy impact of infiltration on the heating demand between 2 and 20 kW h/(m2 y) in regions with temperate climates. In Spain, this issue has not yet been addressed in depth. This study aims to assess the energy impact of uncontrolled airflows through the envelope in residential buildings in Spain. For this purpose, airtightness results of more than 400 blower door tests have been analysed. Multi-family and single-family dwellings built in several periods and located in nine regions with different climate characteristics have been studied. Infiltration was found to have an energy impact in the range 2.43–19.07 kW h/(m2 y) for the heating demand, whereas it is not so significant regarding the cooling demand. The obtained results show great potential for energy saving in the country.

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Irene Poza-Casado; Alberto Meiss; Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos; Jesús Feijó-Muñoz. Airtightness and energy impact of air infiltration in residential buildings in Spain. International Journal of Ventilation 2020, 1 -7.

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Irene Poza-Casado, Alberto Meiss, Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos, Jesús Feijó-Muñoz. Airtightness and energy impact of air infiltration in residential buildings in Spain. International Journal of Ventilation. 2020; ():1-7.

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Irene Poza-Casado; Alberto Meiss; Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos; Jesús Feijó-Muñoz. 2020. "Airtightness and energy impact of air infiltration in residential buildings in Spain." International Journal of Ventilation , no. : 1-7.

Journal article
Published: 31 January 2020 in Sustainability
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Indoor air quality in buildings must be guaranteed for the health and comfort of the occupants. In order to assess the ventilation strategy of a considered room, the parameter of the air change efficiency ( ε a ) can be used. The objective of this work is to provide designers with a graphical tool for a reliable estimate of the value of ε a of a room. The temperature gradient between the outdoor air supply and the indoor air is so low that the ventilation flow can be assumed as isothermal when high-efficiency heat recovery systems are used. By means of charts, the optimal location of the openings for a better ε a can be determined during the design process, in order to subsequently apply them. It is concluded that it is very important to consider the ε a in the case of openings located in facing walls given that its range varies between 40% and 65%. In contrast, its use can be obviated in the case of openings located in non-facing walls, as the value of ε a obtained is close to 50%; this means a perfect mixing air flow pattern, which is the reference value for the estimation of the indoor air quality (IAQ) in the different national regulations.

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Alberto Meiss; Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos; Irene Poza-Casado; Antonio Álvaro-Tordesillas. A Graphical Tool to Estimate the Air Change Efficiency in Rooms with Heat Recovery Systems. Sustainability 2020, 12, 1031 .

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Alberto Meiss, Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos, Irene Poza-Casado, Antonio Álvaro-Tordesillas. A Graphical Tool to Estimate the Air Change Efficiency in Rooms with Heat Recovery Systems. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (3):1031.

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Alberto Meiss; Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos; Irene Poza-Casado; Antonio Álvaro-Tordesillas. 2020. "A Graphical Tool to Estimate the Air Change Efficiency in Rooms with Heat Recovery Systems." Sustainability 12, no. 3: 1031.

Research article
Published: 14 August 2019 in Building Simulation
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Air change efficiency evaluates the ability of a system to achieve the change of the air contained in a confined interior space. It is conditioned by the geometry of the room, the different openings and the properties of the air among others. Rectangular rooms do not offer impediments when mixing the interior air; however, in rooms with non-regular shapes, stagnation phenomenon can occur in the corners. This paper proposes the study of the air change efficiency in an L-shaped room in which the position of the inlet and outlet openings is sequentially variated. This study is based on the execution of successive numerical simulations, validated by experimental studies. The results show that there are differences on the ventilation efficiency of up to 13.49% between the most dissimilar cases, which occur when one of the openings is located in a corner. If the other opening is placed nearby, the results are very poor; whereas if it is placed at the opposite corner, the efficiency value improves due to the circulation of the air through the room. When these openings are placed near the centre of the room, the efficiencies that are obtained are more similar and this analysis is less relevant.

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Mario Rabanillo-Herrero; Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos; Jesús Feijó-Muñoz; Raquel Gil-Valverde; Alberto Meiss. Ventilation efficiency assessment according to the variation of opening position in L-shaped rooms. Building Simulation 2019, 13, 213 -221.

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Mario Rabanillo-Herrero, Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos, Jesús Feijó-Muñoz, Raquel Gil-Valverde, Alberto Meiss. Ventilation efficiency assessment according to the variation of opening position in L-shaped rooms. Building Simulation. 2019; 13 (1):213-221.

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Mario Rabanillo-Herrero; Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos; Jesús Feijó-Muñoz; Raquel Gil-Valverde; Alberto Meiss. 2019. "Ventilation efficiency assessment according to the variation of opening position in L-shaped rooms." Building Simulation 13, no. 1: 213-221.

Journal article
Published: 16 July 2019 in Sustainability
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The evident need for improving the existing building stock still suffers from important barriers, such as the fragmentation of the value chain, the lack of information regarding some solutions, and the lack of confidence with respect to energy savings, which prevent unlocking investments, and the difficult communication among stakeholders. Therefore, new processes based on exploiting the potential of existing and new tools are required. In this framework, the OptEEmAL project has developed a tool that integrates stakeholders, data and tools in order to ease the process of designing energy efficient retrofitting projects at building and district scale. This tool works around an optimisation framework in order to evaluate, compare and optimise candidate retrofitting scenarios against a set of indicators showing the performance of the district. This evaluation and optimisation method is based on aggregating indicators through transforming the priorities of stakeholders into a mathematical weighting scheme, which makes it possible to provide scenarios within their expectations. Therefore, the generation of these scenarios is driven by their design parameters, being thus flexible and adapted to their needs. This paper shows the implementation of this tool and specifically 3 different prioritisation schemes, analysing how they impact into the decision making process and selection of the retrofitting strategy.

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Miguel Á. García-Fuentes; Sonia Álvarez; Víctor Serna; Maxime Pousse; Alberto Meiss. Integration of Prioritisation Criteria in the Design of Energy Efficient Retrofitting Projects at District Scale: A Case Study. Sustainability 2019, 11, 3861 .

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Miguel Á. García-Fuentes, Sonia Álvarez, Víctor Serna, Maxime Pousse, Alberto Meiss. Integration of Prioritisation Criteria in the Design of Energy Efficient Retrofitting Projects at District Scale: A Case Study. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (14):3861.

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Miguel Á. García-Fuentes; Sonia Álvarez; Víctor Serna; Maxime Pousse; Alberto Meiss. 2019. "Integration of Prioritisation Criteria in the Design of Energy Efficient Retrofitting Projects at District Scale: A Case Study." Sustainability 11, no. 14: 3861.

Journal article
Published: 14 June 2019 in Applied Sciences
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Energy-efficient retrofitting of buildings has become essential to achieve the environmental objectives of the European Union’s (EU) strategies towards reducing carbon emissions and energy dependency on fossil fuels. When tackling retrofitting projects, the issue of scale becomes essential as sometimes this can determine the sustainability of the project. Therefore, a comprehensive approach is essential to ensure effective decision-making. A platform has been designed within the EU funded OptEEmAL project to support stakeholders in this process, providing functionalities that can automatically model and evaluate candidate retrofitting alternatives considering their priorities, targets and boundary conditions. A core element of this platform is the evaluation framework deployed which implements a multi-criteria decision-making approach to transform the priorities of stakeholders into quantifiable weights used to compare the alternatives. As a result, more informed decisions can be made by the stakeholders through a comprehensive evaluation of the candidate retrofitting scenarios. This paper presents the approach followed to develop and integrate this evaluation framework within the platform as well as its validation in a controlled environment to ensure its effectiveness.

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Miguel Á. García-Fuentes; Víctor Serna; Gema Hernández; Alberto Meiss. An Evaluation Framework to Support Optimisation of Scenarios for Energy Efficient Retrofitting of Buildings at the District Level. Applied Sciences 2019, 9, 2448 .

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Miguel Á. García-Fuentes, Víctor Serna, Gema Hernández, Alberto Meiss. An Evaluation Framework to Support Optimisation of Scenarios for Energy Efficient Retrofitting of Buildings at the District Level. Applied Sciences. 2019; 9 (12):2448.

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Miguel Á. García-Fuentes; Víctor Serna; Gema Hernández; Alberto Meiss. 2019. "An Evaluation Framework to Support Optimisation of Scenarios for Energy Efficient Retrofitting of Buildings at the District Level." Applied Sciences 9, no. 12: 2448.

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Published: 12 March 2019 in Energy and Buildings
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This paper presents a feasibility study on the use of multilayer neural networks to determine airflow infiltration from thermographs, thus the related energy leak. The developed method, aimed at accurate evaluation of intake airflow through an opening in the building's envelope, uses as input data infrared images of the temperature changes in a rendering surface near an opening in the building's envelope. Data collection of these measurements can be achieved with relative simplicity, and therefore could lead to an alternative or complementary method to the standardised ways of measuring infiltration based on Blower Door test, increasing the possibilities of monitoring, supervision and continuous management of building's ventilation and airtightness. Laboratory results show over 93% average accuracy for instant samples, and over 98% global accuracy for sequences. The generalization capability of this method has also been explored, and several neural network topologies analysed.

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Andrés Royuela-Del-Val; Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos; Alberto Meiss; Pablo Casaseca-De-La-Higuera; Jesús Feijó-Muñoz. Air infiltration monitoring using thermography and neural networks. Energy and Buildings 2019, 191, 187 -199.

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Andrés Royuela-Del-Val, Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos, Alberto Meiss, Pablo Casaseca-De-La-Higuera, Jesús Feijó-Muñoz. Air infiltration monitoring using thermography and neural networks. Energy and Buildings. 2019; 191 ():187-199.

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Andrés Royuela-Del-Val; Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos; Alberto Meiss; Pablo Casaseca-De-La-Higuera; Jesús Feijó-Muñoz. 2019. "Air infiltration monitoring using thermography and neural networks." Energy and Buildings 191, no. : 187-199.

Journal article
Published: 18 February 2019 in Energy and Buildings
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Air infiltration through the building envelope has already been proven to have a significant energy impact in dwellings. Different studies have been carried out in Europe, but there is still a lack of knowledge in this field regarding mild climates. An experimental field study has been carried out in the Mediterranean climate area of Spain and the Canary Islands in order to assess the air permeability of the building envelope and its energy impact. A wide characterization and Blower Door tests have been performed in 225 cases in Alicante, Barcelona, Málaga, Sevilla and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria for this purpose. The obtained mean air permeability rate for the 225 studied cases was 6.56 m3/(h·m2). The influence of several variables on airtightness was statistically analysed, although only location, climate zone and window material were found to be significant. Air infiltration has an energy impact between 2.43 and 16.44 kWh/m2·year on the heating demand and between 0.54 and 3.06 kWh/m2·year on the cooling demand.

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Jesús Feijó-Muñoz; Cristina Pardal; Víctor Echarri; Jesica Fernández-Agüera; Rafael Assiego de Larriva; Manuel Montesdeoca Calderín; Irene Poza-Casado; Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos; Alberto Meiss. Energy impact of the air infiltration in residential buildings in the Mediterranean area of Spain and the Canary islands. Energy and Buildings 2019, 188-189, 226 -238.

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Jesús Feijó-Muñoz, Cristina Pardal, Víctor Echarri, Jesica Fernández-Agüera, Rafael Assiego de Larriva, Manuel Montesdeoca Calderín, Irene Poza-Casado, Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos, Alberto Meiss. Energy impact of the air infiltration in residential buildings in the Mediterranean area of Spain and the Canary islands. Energy and Buildings. 2019; 188-189 ():226-238.

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Jesús Feijó-Muñoz; Cristina Pardal; Víctor Echarri; Jesica Fernández-Agüera; Rafael Assiego de Larriva; Manuel Montesdeoca Calderín; Irene Poza-Casado; Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos; Alberto Meiss. 2019. "Energy impact of the air infiltration in residential buildings in the Mediterranean area of Spain and the Canary islands." Energy and Buildings 188-189, no. : 226-238.

Journal article
Published: 15 November 2018 in Building and Environment
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Infiltration plays a relevant role regarding the energy performance of buildings. Many European countries have already established standards which aim to limit the energy waste through the envelope following the European Energy Performance of Buildings Directive guidelines. However, in Mediterranean countries there is still a lack of knowledge in this field. An extensive study has been carried out in order to characterize the air leakage through the envelope of the existing housing stock in the Continental climate area of Spain. Results of 129 dwellings tested, including different typologies and periods of construction, are shown. Blower door tests were performed, and thermal imaging was used to locate leakage paths. Single-family dwellings were found to be more airtight than apartments, given that the mean air permeability rate at 50 Pa (q50) was 5.4 m3/h·m2 and 6.8 m3/h·m2 respectively. The mean air change rate at 50 Pa (n50) was 6.1 h−1 for single-family dwellings and 7.1 h−1 for multi-family housing. Nevertheless, great dispersion of results and extreme values were found. In addition, the influence of several construction characteristics on permeability results was assessed.

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Jesús Feijó-Muñoz; Roberto Alonso González-Lezcano; Irene Poza-Casado; Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos; Alberto Meiss. Airtightness of residential buildings in the Continental area of Spain. Building and Environment 2018, 148, 299 -308.

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Jesús Feijó-Muñoz, Roberto Alonso González-Lezcano, Irene Poza-Casado, Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos, Alberto Meiss. Airtightness of residential buildings in the Continental area of Spain. Building and Environment. 2018; 148 ():299-308.

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Jesús Feijó-Muñoz; Roberto Alonso González-Lezcano; Irene Poza-Casado; Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos; Alberto Meiss. 2018. "Airtightness of residential buildings in the Continental area of Spain." Building and Environment 148, no. : 299-308.

Journal article
Published: 15 October 2018 in Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A
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There is a lack of studies concerning both the quality of air entering buildings from light shafts and its impact on energy consumption. A combined isothermal analysis of several factors such as urban environment and wind, along with the dimensional conditions of the building, facilitated the assessment of the light shaft to promote air change. The aim of this study was on the impact of architectural design on the quality of the incoming air from light shafts. The capacity of light shafts to provide air change with urban air was evaluated using the concept of air change efficiency. This is determined by the environment, the dimensions, and the proportions of the building containing a light shaft. These were simulated using computation fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques which were experimentally validated. This concept requires the definition of an ideal control domain for comparative evaluation in different cases. For the case studies evaluated, it was verified through numerical analysis that the longer the light shaft in the wind direction was, the better the air change efficiency. It was confirmed that light shafts up to 12 m high and with height/length (H/L) rates lower than 3 were those achieving the best efficiency. The study provided several evaluation tools of a design of this type of outdoor space according to the criteria of air change content. An equation is presented defining the value of the air change efficiency for the outline of architectural design strategies intended for buildings with air shafts.

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Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos; Alberto Meiss; Jesús Feijó-Muñoz. A new application model of building ventilation with light shafts: a proposal based on case study assessment. Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A 2018, 19, 796 -810.

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Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos, Alberto Meiss, Jesús Feijó-Muñoz. A new application model of building ventilation with light shafts: a proposal based on case study assessment. Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A. 2018; 19 (10):796-810.

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Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos; Alberto Meiss; Jesús Feijó-Muñoz. 2018. "A new application model of building ventilation with light shafts: a proposal based on case study assessment." Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A 19, no. 10: 796-810.

Journal article
Published: 07 September 2018 in Energies
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Districts can be considered as a system of complex interconnections, interactions, relationships and flows. Therefore, a comprehensive approach is essential for effective decision-making with regards to energy efficiency improvement. When addressing interventions with a wider scale, the range of possible interventions is greater, as well as the possibilities of new business models to make bankable the interventions. However certain barriers can appear linked to the interactions among stakeholders, which are usually more complex than when tackling individual actuations. To overcome these barriers it is necessary to establish integrated and systemic methodologies able to support stakeholders to implement better collaboration approaches and carry out more informed decisions. These decisions should be based on a set of relevant indicators, calculated at district level, capturing the different stages that form the retrofitting process (from the diagnosis to the final assessment). This paper presents a holistic design methodology based on the application of a Multi-Criteria Decision Making approach that allows designing optimised solutions. This methodology is based on the evaluation of a set of District Sustainability Indicators while proposing an Integrated Project Delivery method improving the communications among stakeholders and, therefore, the decision-making process.

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Miguel Á. García-Fuentes; Rubén García-Pajares; Cecilia Sanz; Alberto Meiss. Novel Design Support Methodology Based on a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Approach for Energy Efficient District Retrofitting Projects. Energies 2018, 11, 2368 .

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Miguel Á. García-Fuentes, Rubén García-Pajares, Cecilia Sanz, Alberto Meiss. Novel Design Support Methodology Based on a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Approach for Energy Efficient District Retrofitting Projects. Energies. 2018; 11 (9):2368.

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Miguel Á. García-Fuentes; Rubén García-Pajares; Cecilia Sanz; Alberto Meiss. 2018. "Novel Design Support Methodology Based on a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Approach for Energy Efficient District Retrofitting Projects." Energies 11, no. 9: 2368.

Journal article
Published: 24 July 2018 in Energies
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An experimentally validated numerical method for evaluating the suitability of an urban design with regard to its capacity to provide the optimum air quality for its occupants through the confined outdoor spaces is proposed. Eight possible confined outdoor spaces are defined according to their position with regard to the built elements, laterally delimited by the envelope surfaces of the neighbouring buildings. This work focuses on the definition of a procedure capable of analysing outdoor air change quality according to the age-of-the-air concept. The obtained results show that the confined outdoor spaces that are exposed to the wind action are more predisposed to reduce the mean age-of-the-air that they contain. For the analysed cases, a considerable improvement of up to 78.68% in the air change quality can be obtained by taking into account wind exposure criteria in relation to its shape and urban density, which is classified for this purpose.

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Miguel Padilla-Marcos; Meiss Alberto. Assessment for the Age-Of-The-Air and Ventilation Efficiency in Confined Outdoor Spaces through Computational Fluid Dynamics Techniques. Energies 2018, 11, 1932 .

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Miguel Padilla-Marcos, Meiss Alberto. Assessment for the Age-Of-The-Air and Ventilation Efficiency in Confined Outdoor Spaces through Computational Fluid Dynamics Techniques. Energies. 2018; 11 (8):1932.

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Miguel Padilla-Marcos; Meiss Alberto. 2018. "Assessment for the Age-Of-The-Air and Ventilation Efficiency in Confined Outdoor Spaces through Computational Fluid Dynamics Techniques." Energies 11, no. 8: 1932.

Research article
Published: 03 May 2018 in Journal of Building Physics
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In developed countries, presence at home varies between 60% and 90% of the day, sleeping supposes 30%. Therefore, it is essential to ensure good indoor air quality that enhances health and benefits rest and recovery. In this context, it is necessary to achieve a balance between energy efficiency and air distribution parameters; thus, the influence exerted by the furniture of a bedroom on the air exchange efficiency, in the breathing zone during sleep, is assessed in this study. Computational fluid dynamics techniques, experimentally validated by the tracer gas (SF6) concentration decay method, are used to analyze 52 case studies corresponding to the same space, but varying both the number and the arrangement of the furniture inside. It is concluded that, in order to achieve a significant improvement in the air exchange efficiency, the number of elements included in the bedroom is not relevant, but the position of them. The highest increase in the ventilation efficiency in breathing zone is observed when the furniture is located avoiding the airflow obstruction in the area near the inlet and creating an unfilled volume of air in the area close to the outlet.

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Susana Hormigos-Jimenez; Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos; Alberto Meiss; Roberto Alonso Gonzalez-Lezcano; Jesús Feijó-Muñoz. Assessment of the ventilation efficiency in the breathing zone during sleep through computational fluid dynamics techniques. Journal of Building Physics 2018, 42, 458 -483.

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Susana Hormigos-Jimenez, Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos, Alberto Meiss, Roberto Alonso Gonzalez-Lezcano, Jesús Feijó-Muñoz. Assessment of the ventilation efficiency in the breathing zone during sleep through computational fluid dynamics techniques. Journal of Building Physics. 2018; 42 (4):458-483.

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Susana Hormigos-Jimenez; Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos; Alberto Meiss; Roberto Alonso Gonzalez-Lezcano; Jesús Feijó-Muñoz. 2018. "Assessment of the ventilation efficiency in the breathing zone during sleep through computational fluid dynamics techniques." Journal of Building Physics 42, no. 4: 458-483.

Journal article
Published: 15 March 2018 in Science and Technology for the Built Environment
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Susana Hormigos-Jimenez; Miguel Angel Padilla-Marcos; Alberto Meiss; Roberto Alonso Gonzalez-Lezcano; Jesús Feijó-Muñoz. Experimental validation of the age-of-the-air CFD analysis: A case study. Science and Technology for the Built Environment 2018, 24, 994 -1003.

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Susana Hormigos-Jimenez, Miguel Angel Padilla-Marcos, Alberto Meiss, Roberto Alonso Gonzalez-Lezcano, Jesús Feijó-Muñoz. Experimental validation of the age-of-the-air CFD analysis: A case study. Science and Technology for the Built Environment. 2018; 24 (9):994-1003.

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Susana Hormigos-Jimenez; Miguel Angel Padilla-Marcos; Alberto Meiss; Roberto Alonso Gonzalez-Lezcano; Jesús Feijó-Muñoz. 2018. "Experimental validation of the age-of-the-air CFD analysis: A case study." Science and Technology for the Built Environment 24, no. 9: 994-1003.

Journal article
Published: 13 March 2018 in Energies
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Jesús Feijó-Muñoz; Irene Poza-Casado; Roberto Alonso González-Lezcano; Cristina Pardal; Víctor Echarri; Rafael Assiego De Larriva; Jesica Fernández-Agüera; María Jesús Dios-Viéitez; Víctor José Del Campo-Díaz; Manuel Montesdeoca Calderín; Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos; Alberto Meiss. Methodology for the Study of the Envelope Airtightness of Residential Buildings in Spain: A Case Study. Energies 2018, 1 .

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Jesús Feijó-Muñoz, Irene Poza-Casado, Roberto Alonso González-Lezcano, Cristina Pardal, Víctor Echarri, Rafael Assiego De Larriva, Jesica Fernández-Agüera, María Jesús Dios-Viéitez, Víctor José Del Campo-Díaz, Manuel Montesdeoca Calderín, Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos, Alberto Meiss. Methodology for the Study of the Envelope Airtightness of Residential Buildings in Spain: A Case Study. Energies. 2018; ():1.

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Jesús Feijó-Muñoz; Irene Poza-Casado; Roberto Alonso González-Lezcano; Cristina Pardal; Víctor Echarri; Rafael Assiego De Larriva; Jesica Fernández-Agüera; María Jesús Dios-Viéitez; Víctor José Del Campo-Díaz; Manuel Montesdeoca Calderín; Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos; Alberto Meiss. 2018. "Methodology for the Study of the Envelope Airtightness of Residential Buildings in Spain: A Case Study." Energies , no. : 1.

Research article
Published: 13 February 2018 in Building Services Engineering Research and Technology
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People spend most of their time indoors; therefore, maintaining a good indoor air quality and meeting the requirements of comfort and energy efficiency are essential. One of the most widespread strategies to achieve this objective is improving ventilation efficiency; therefore, the main aim of this study was to show an optimization of the ventilation efficiency, in a specific room, considering 47 variations (case studies) in the furniture arrangement. For this purpose, a numerical analysis using computational fluid dynamics techniques, validated by the tracer gas decay technique, was used to assess the distribution of the age of air within the space. The concept of “age of air” was implemented in the computational fluid dynamics code through user-defined functions, using the steady-state method based on the resolution of a transport equation for an additional scalar. Variations up to 5.75% in the ventilation efficiency between the cases studied have been achieved. It is concluded that an improvement up to 1.65% can be obtained when the elements of the study are introduced in a way that facilitates the air movement towards the exhaust; therefore, improvement of the ventilation efficiency through specific furniture distributions is possible, although not significant, according to the outcomes.

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Susana Hormigos-Jimenez; Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos; Alberto Meiss; Roberto Alonso Gonzalez-Lezcano; Jesús Feijó-Muñoz. Computational fluid dynamics evaluation of the furniture arrangement for ventilation efficiency. Building Services Engineering Research and Technology 2018, 39, 557 -571.

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Susana Hormigos-Jimenez, Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos, Alberto Meiss, Roberto Alonso Gonzalez-Lezcano, Jesús Feijó-Muñoz. Computational fluid dynamics evaluation of the furniture arrangement for ventilation efficiency. Building Services Engineering Research and Technology. 2018; 39 (5):557-571.

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Susana Hormigos-Jimenez; Miguel Ángel Padilla-Marcos; Alberto Meiss; Roberto Alonso Gonzalez-Lezcano; Jesús Feijó-Muñoz. 2018. "Computational fluid dynamics evaluation of the furniture arrangement for ventilation efficiency." Building Services Engineering Research and Technology 39, no. 5: 557-571.

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Published: 19 January 2018 in Indoor and Built Environment
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The effect of temperature of the heating system elements is a parameter that could affect the airflow in terms of buoyancy and thermal comfort and that should be studied to ensure the quality of ventilation. This study aimed to assess the air change efficiency and thermal comfort with three thermal conditioning systems (radiators, underfloor heating and radiant ceiling) in winter conditions, varying its position in the interior space. This can be used by architects and engineers when planning the position of the heating systems or refurbishing a room. The experimental analysis was developed in the test chamber of the Laboratory of Ventilation of the University of Valladolid, serving as validation of multiple CFD simulations. The results show that, being the thermal comfort achieved, the mean air change efficiency varied only 2.40% among all cases, which makes this factor not significant. Even so, the trajectory of the airflow in the premise would be affected by the thermal action, due to the convective effect, presenting great differences according to the location of the thermal systems. Thus, the air trajectory could falter when it enters the room or rise towards the ceiling creating areas with lower temperature in its centre.

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Mario Rabanillo-Herrero; Miguel Ángel Padilla Marcos; Jesús Feijó-Muñoz; Alberto Meiss. Effects of the radiant heating system location on both the airflow and ventilation efficiency in a room. Indoor and Built Environment 2018, 28, 372 -383.

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Mario Rabanillo-Herrero, Miguel Ángel Padilla Marcos, Jesús Feijó-Muñoz, Alberto Meiss. Effects of the radiant heating system location on both the airflow and ventilation efficiency in a room. Indoor and Built Environment. 2018; 28 (3):372-383.

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Mario Rabanillo-Herrero; Miguel Ángel Padilla Marcos; Jesús Feijó-Muñoz; Alberto Meiss. 2018. "Effects of the radiant heating system location on both the airflow and ventilation efficiency in a room." Indoor and Built Environment 28, no. 3: 372-383.