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Prof. Dr. Mark Bomberg
Department of Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA

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Review
Published: 09 April 2021 in World
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This paper presents a building construction approach that is based on forty years of experience and a focus on multi-disciplinary synergies. After 1980, the migration science-based design was accelerated by the “Integrated Design Process (IDP)”. As a result, building science became a significant force in reducing the effects of climate change. The component associated with heating, cooling, and ventilation that is labeled “Environmental Quality Management” (EQM) or EQM-retro for interior applications will be discussed. The critical aspects of EQM-retro are: (1) A two-stage process for new and retro construction that modifies financing patterns. In stage one, the object is to develop the best possible performance within an investment limit. In stage two, the cost is minimized; (2) Building Automatic Control Systems (BACS) are important for control thermal mass contributions of while achieving adaptable indoor climate as well as an integration of the HVAC system with the building structure; (3) This is achieved with use of a monitoring application and performance evaluation (MAPE); (4) Introduction of BACS and MAPE during design process improves the integration of building subsystems and energy optimization. Examples showing increaseased occupant-controlled comfort, energy efficiency and flexibility of energy demand are presented in the paper.

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Mark Bomberg; Anna Romanska-Zapala; David Yarbrough. Towards a New Paradigm for Building Science (Building Physics). World 2021, 2, 194 -215.

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Mark Bomberg, Anna Romanska-Zapala, David Yarbrough. Towards a New Paradigm for Building Science (Building Physics). World. 2021; 2 (2):194-215.

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Mark Bomberg; Anna Romanska-Zapala; David Yarbrough. 2021. "Towards a New Paradigm for Building Science (Building Physics)." World 2, no. 2: 194-215.

Journal article
Published: 04 July 2020 in Energies
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Introducing integrated, automatic control to buildings operating with the environmental quality management (EQM) system, we found that existing energy models are not suitable for use in integrated control systems as they poorly represent the real time, interacting, and transient effects that occur under field conditions. We needed another high-precision estimator for energy efficiency and indoor environment and to this end we examined artificial neural networks (ANNs). This paper presents a road map for design and evaluation of ANN-based estimators of the given performance aspect in a complex interacting environment. It demonstrates that in creating a precise representation of a mathematical relationship one must evaluate the stability and fitness under randomly changing initial conditions. It also shows that ANN systems designed in this manner may have a high precision in characterizing the response of the building exposed to the variable outdoor climatic conditions. The absolute value of the relative errors (MaxARE) being less than 1.4% for each stage of the ANN development proves that our objective of monitoring and EQM characterization can be reached.

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Marek Dudzik; Anna Romanska-Zapala; Mark Bomberg. A Neural Network for Monitoring and Characterization of Buildings with Environmental Quality Management, Part 1: Verification under Steady State Conditions. Energies 2020, 13, 3469 .

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Marek Dudzik, Anna Romanska-Zapala, Mark Bomberg. A Neural Network for Monitoring and Characterization of Buildings with Environmental Quality Management, Part 1: Verification under Steady State Conditions. Energies. 2020; 13 (13):3469.

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Marek Dudzik; Anna Romanska-Zapala; Mark Bomberg. 2020. "A Neural Network for Monitoring and Characterization of Buildings with Environmental Quality Management, Part 1: Verification under Steady State Conditions." Energies 13, no. 13: 3469.

Journal article
Published: 25 February 2020 in Energies
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This is an overview of a Key Note lecture; the quote for this lecture is from T.S. Eliot: “We must not cease from exploration and at the end of all our exploring will be to arrive, where we began, and, to know the place for the first time”. This quote highlights that the process of scientific development goes in circles, yet each of them goes above the previous circle, building up the ladder of knowledge. Closing one circle and opening the next may be either be a quiet, unnoticeable event or a roaring loud, scientific revolution. Building science (physics) was started about 100 years ago, but only now are we closing its second circle. Perhaps, because of building physics’ role in the fourth industrial revolution, this discipline itself is undergoing a scientific revolution The first industrial revolution was based on steam generated by burning coal, the second was based on petroleum, and the third on electricity and concentrated electricity production. The current one, i.e., the fourth, is based on distributed energy sources combined with information technology.

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Mark Bomberg; Anna Romanska-Zapala; David Yarbrough. Journey of American Building Physics: Steps Leading to the Current Scientific Revolution. Energies 2020, 13, 1027 .

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Mark Bomberg, Anna Romanska-Zapala, David Yarbrough. Journey of American Building Physics: Steps Leading to the Current Scientific Revolution. Energies. 2020; 13 (5):1027.

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Mark Bomberg; Anna Romanska-Zapala; David Yarbrough. 2020. "Journey of American Building Physics: Steps Leading to the Current Scientific Revolution." Energies 13, no. 5: 1027.

Journal article
Published: 19 December 2019 in Energies
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The growing popularity of buildings with integrated sub-systems requires a review of methods to optimize the preheating of ventilation air. An integrated system permits using geothermal heat storage parallel to the direct outdoor air intake with additional treatment in the mechanical room as a part of building an automatic control system. The earth–air heat exchanger (EAHX) has many advantages but also has many unanswered questions. Some of the drawbacks are: A possible entry of radon gas, high humidity in the shoulder seasons, and the need for two different air intake sources with a choice that depends on the actual weather conditions. In winter the EAHX may be used continuously to ensure thermal comfort, while in other seasons its operation must be automatically controlled. To generate missing information about EAHX technology we examined two nearly identical EAHX systems, one placed in the ground next to a building and the other under the basement slab. In another project, we reinforced the ground storage action by having a heat exchanger placed on the return pipes of the hydronic heating system. The information provided in this paper shows advantages of merging both these approaches, while the EAHX could be placed under the house or near the basement foundation that is using an exterior basement insulation.

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Anna Romanska-Zapala; Mark Bomberg; Miroslaw Dechnik; Malgorzata FEDORCZAK-CISAK; Marcin Furtak. On Preheating of the Outdoor Ventilation Air. Energies 2019, 13, 15 .

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Anna Romanska-Zapala, Mark Bomberg, Miroslaw Dechnik, Malgorzata FEDORCZAK-CISAK, Marcin Furtak. On Preheating of the Outdoor Ventilation Air. Energies. 2019; 13 (1):15.

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Anna Romanska-Zapala; Mark Bomberg; Miroslaw Dechnik; Malgorzata FEDORCZAK-CISAK; Marcin Furtak. 2019. "On Preheating of the Outdoor Ventilation Air." Energies 13, no. 1: 15.

Review article
Published: 06 December 2019 in Advances in Building Energy Research
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Knowledge accumulated in the past from observed construction failures has formed the basis for a predictive capability. More recently, it has been observed that interactions between energy efficiency, indoor environmental quality and moisture management are important and should be considered simultaneously. As a result, the term ‘indoor environmental control’ has become a focus of the building-science community. Forty years ago, in Canada, 10 passive houses were built, but broad public acceptance of this new technology waited for almost 20 years. Now, 40 years later, we are coming to the stage of implementing low energy-use technologies, and questions about how to accelerate public acceptance remains a challenge. We believe that the role of the academic community must be broadened to include active collaboration with authorities that control construction through codes and standards. As an example, a new compact design package called ‘environmental quality management’ (EQM) that is applicable to different climates with modifications of some hygrothermal properties is proposed. In this position paper, the concept of EQM follows from an examination of the history of building science with projection into the future. Building science (physics) is needed to provide direction for the transition to the ‘sustainable built environment’.

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David W. Yarbrough; Mark Bomberg; Anna Romanska-Zapala. On the next generation of low energy buildings. Advances in Building Energy Research 2019, 15, 223 -230.

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David W. Yarbrough, Mark Bomberg, Anna Romanska-Zapala. On the next generation of low energy buildings. Advances in Building Energy Research. 2019; 15 (2):223-230.

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David W. Yarbrough; Mark Bomberg; Anna Romanska-Zapala. 2019. "On the next generation of low energy buildings." Advances in Building Energy Research 15, no. 2: 223-230.

Preprint
Published: 29 October 2019
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Growing popularity of smart and integrated buildings requires a review of methods to optimize the preheat of ventilation air. An integrated system permits using heat ex-changers located in the mechanical room or in the future even using an exterior wall as a heat exchanger. One may ask the question how does the earth-air heat exchanger (EAHX) technology fitts into this function. EAHX has many advantages but also has many unanswered questions. Some of the drawbacks are: a possible entry of radon gas, high humidity in the shoulder seasons as well as the need for two different air intake sources with a choice that depends on the actual weather conditions. While in winter, the EAHX may be used continuously to ensure thermal comfort, in other seasons, its operation must be automatically controlled. To generate the missing information about the EAHX technology we reviewed literature and examined two nearly identical EAHX systems, placed either in ground next to the building or under the basement slab. Effectively, the information provided in this paper, shows advantages of merging both these approaches while the EAHX shoud be placed under the house or near the basement foundation.

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Anna Romanska - Zapala Romanska - Zapala; Mark Bomberg; Miroslaw Dechnik; Malgorzata FEDORCZAK-CISAK; Marcin Furtak. Alternative Methods For Preheating Outdoor Ventilation Air. 2019, 1 .

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Anna Romanska - Zapala Romanska - Zapala, Mark Bomberg, Miroslaw Dechnik, Malgorzata FEDORCZAK-CISAK, Marcin Furtak. Alternative Methods For Preheating Outdoor Ventilation Air. . 2019; ():1.

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Anna Romanska - Zapala Romanska - Zapala; Mark Bomberg; Miroslaw Dechnik; Malgorzata FEDORCZAK-CISAK; Marcin Furtak. 2019. "Alternative Methods For Preheating Outdoor Ventilation Air." , no. : 1.

Conference paper
Published: 06 September 2019 in MATEC Web of Conferences
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The concept of environmental quality management has been described in papers [1 - 4] that looked at the next generation of low energy buildings from the point of view of the occupant. Optimizing energy use is difficult for a few reasons: presence of dramatic changes in the manner we design and operate buildings, change in the role of an architect who must be a leader of interacting team, often quality management is biased towards the design more than on performance of the finished product and finally the need for integrated monitoring and modeling in the occupancy stage. Effectively, we are integrating heating/cooling and ventilation with the structure at the same time as we verify the appropriateness of the new methods to evaluate performance of these systems. In this process we require double controls, one by the occupant and the other by the computerized (smart) control system. The traditional approaches to modify human behavior generally failed because occupants were not given enough control over their environment. Thus, a major part of the trend to a low-carbon, climate resilient future will be focused on methodology to include path from a complex field testing of building performance to simplified testing that combined with simple monitoring and data from utilities would allow assessment of the energy and carbon emission in a district of a city. Our experience shows that preliminary design must be optimized during the period of service for all more complex buildings such as large residential, office or commercial buildings. In this context the artificial neural network approach appears to have significant advantages. Yet, traditionally ANN requires large data set to establish functional relations during the learning stage and therefore the first question is how precise can the control of temperature be when the heat exchanger is subjected to different climatic conditions.

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Anna Romanska-Zapala; Mark Bomberg. Can artificial neuron networks be used for control of HVAC in environmental quality management systems? MATEC Web of Conferences 2019, 282, 02068 .

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Anna Romanska-Zapala, Mark Bomberg. Can artificial neuron networks be used for control of HVAC in environmental quality management systems? MATEC Web of Conferences. 2019; 282 ():02068.

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Anna Romanska-Zapala; Mark Bomberg. 2019. "Can artificial neuron networks be used for control of HVAC in environmental quality management systems?" MATEC Web of Conferences 282, no. : 02068.

Research article
Published: 24 August 2018 in Journal of Building Physics
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The previous part of this article starts 100 years ago, at the time of the humble beginnings of building science, and brings us to the current stage of the net zero energy buildings (NZEB). We see how, over the years, knowledge from the observed failures of buildings has accumulated to become the basis for current building science. The strong interactions between energy efficiency, moisture management, and indoor environment and the need for their simultaneous analysis led to the concept of environmental assessment. More than 40 years of experience with passive houses (the first 10 were built in Canada in 1977) in process that would collect those developments into the mainstream of NZEB technology permits extrapolation to the future. As the first priority, we see a need for a fundamental change in the approach to NZEB—instead of improving the separate pieces of the puzzle before assembling them, we need first to establish the conceptual design of the whole system. Only after determination of the basic requirements for each subsystem and each assembly may materials that would fulfill the specific requirements of this assembly be selected. In this design process, the actual climate and socio-economic conditions (including construction cost) vary, so we must deal with a set of design principles rather than a description of a specific construction technology. A guiding set of considerations is presented below to establish a system of environmental quality management (EQM).

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Anna Romanska-Zapala; Mark Bomberg; David W Yarbrough. Buildings with environmental quality management: Part 4: A path to the future NZEB. Journal of Building Physics 2018, 43, 3 -21.

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Anna Romanska-Zapala, Mark Bomberg, David W Yarbrough. Buildings with environmental quality management: Part 4: A path to the future NZEB. Journal of Building Physics. 2018; 43 (1):3-21.

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Anna Romanska-Zapala; Mark Bomberg; David W Yarbrough. 2018. "Buildings with environmental quality management: Part 4: A path to the future NZEB." Journal of Building Physics 43, no. 1: 3-21.

Research article
Published: 16 August 2018 in Journal of Building Physics
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The discussion in this article starts in the 1920s, that is, at the time of the humble beginnings of building science and brings us to 2020s with the development of net-zero energy buildings. The knowledge accumulated by explaining observed failures in the practice of construction slowly formed a basis for moving toward a predictive capability and to an integration of modeling and testing. Furthermore, we have learned that interactions between energy efficiency, indoor environmental quality, and moisture management are so critical that the three issues must be considered simultaneously. Effectively, a change in the low energy is needed to ensure durability of materials and cost considerations for these buildings. At this stage, one could observe a clear change in the mind-set of the scientific community. Forty years after construction of the first 10 passive homes, we made a shocking observation—an adequate technology has been developed, but our lack of vision prevents effective use of this technology. Again, we need to modify our vision and change the design paradigm to balance comfort, building durability, and cost-effectiveness. If the quest for sustainable buildings is our ultimate objective, then we should learn more from the surrounding nature; termites appear to master the art of hygrothermal control better than humans because they can optimize transient conditions to maintain a stable interior comfort zone. Thus, in the article to follow a new compact building envelope design package is proposed, applicable to different climates with specific modifications of critical hygrothermal material properties. This approach is called the Environmental Quality Management. This will be the second step for a building science (physics) needed to become a leading force in the transition to sustainable built environments.

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David W Yarbrough; Mark Bomberg; Anna Romanska-Zapala. Buildings with environmental quality management, part 3: From log houses to environmental quality management zero-energy buildings. Journal of Building Physics 2018, 42, 672 -691.

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David W Yarbrough, Mark Bomberg, Anna Romanska-Zapala. Buildings with environmental quality management, part 3: From log houses to environmental quality management zero-energy buildings. Journal of Building Physics. 2018; 42 (5):672-691.

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David W Yarbrough; Mark Bomberg; Anna Romanska-Zapala. 2018. "Buildings with environmental quality management, part 3: From log houses to environmental quality management zero-energy buildings." Journal of Building Physics 42, no. 5: 672-691.

Editorial
Published: 27 July 2017 in Journal of Building Physics
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Mark Bomberg. Editorial. Journal of Building Physics 2017, 41, 97 -100.

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Mark Bomberg. Editorial. Journal of Building Physics. 2017; 41 (2):97-100.

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Mark Bomberg. 2017. "Editorial." Journal of Building Physics 41, no. 2: 97-100.

Research article
Published: 19 June 2017 in Journal of Building Physics
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The quest for a sustainable built environment has resulted in dramatic changes in the process of residential construction. The new concepts of an integrated design team, building information modeling, commissioning of the building enclosure, and passive house standards have reached maturity. Global work on development of new construction materials has not changed, but their evaluation is not the same as in the past when each material was considered on its own merits. Today, we look at the performance of a building as a system and on the material as a contributor to this system. The series of white papers—a research overview in building physics undertaken in European and North American researchers—is to provide understanding of the process of design and construction for sustainable built environment that involves harmony between different aspects of the environment, society, and economy. Yet, the building physics is changing. It merges with building science in the quest of predicting building performance, it merges concepts of passive houses with solar engineering and integrates building shell with mechanical services, but is still missing an overall vision. Physics does not tell us how to integrate people with their environment. The authors propose a new term buildings with environmental quality management because the vision of the building design must be re-directed toward people. In doing so, the building physics will automatically include durability of the shell, energy efficiency, and carbon emission and aspects such as individual ventilation and indoor climate control. This article, which is part 1 of a series, deals with materials, and other issues will be discussed in following papers.

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Mark Bomberg; Marcin Furtak; David Yarbrough. Buildings with environmental quality management: Part 1: Designing multifunctional construction materials. Journal of Building Physics 2017, 41, 193 -208.

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Mark Bomberg, Marcin Furtak, David Yarbrough. Buildings with environmental quality management: Part 1: Designing multifunctional construction materials. Journal of Building Physics. 2017; 41 (3):193-208.

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Mark Bomberg; Marcin Furtak; David Yarbrough. 2017. "Buildings with environmental quality management: Part 1: Designing multifunctional construction materials." Journal of Building Physics 41, no. 3: 193-208.

Editorial
Published: 12 January 2017 in Journal of Building Physics
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Mark Bomberg. Editorial. Journal of Building Physics 2017, 41, 293 -298.

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Mark Bomberg. Editorial. Journal of Building Physics. 2017; 41 (4):293-298.

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Mark Bomberg. 2017. "Editorial." Journal of Building Physics 41, no. 4: 293-298.

Editorial
Published: 24 July 2016 in Journal of Building Physics
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Mark Bomberg. Editorial. Journal of Building Physics 2016, 40, 99 -100.

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Mark Bomberg. Editorial. Journal of Building Physics. 2016; 40 (2):99-100.

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Mark Bomberg. 2016. "Editorial." Journal of Building Physics 40, no. 2: 99-100.

Research article
Published: 05 February 2016 in Journal of Building Physics
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In the first part of this series, we discussed that the building structure, energy efficiency, indoor environmental quality, and moisture management all need to be considered simultaneously to ensure durability of materials and control cost of near-zero energy buildings. These factors must be addressed through contributions of the whole design team. It is also evident that building physics must take an active role in development of near-zero energy buildings. The need to ensure good indoor environment and durability of materials and limit the cost of buildings led to integrated design process that now is typical in Canada for design of low-energy buildings. Furthermore, interactions between energy efficiency, quality of indoor environment and moisture management led us to introduce a concept of “environmental control.” In the meantime, we made an unexpected observation—Vancouver dwellings in 2002 use the same amount of energy as 1920 uninsulated masonry buildings erected in the same location. We concluded that despite having advanced technology, our lack of vision prevents us from an effective use of this technology. With the quest for sustainable buildings, we should learn more from termites, who appear to master the art of hygrothermal control better than humans as they are capable of maintaining highly stable interior comfort zone without heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning equipment. Nevertheless, whatever progress is achieved in new low-energy buildings, it is lost when rehabilitating existing buildings because there an owner will typically do one step at a time. If the financial constraints do not allow for more, this first step should be an integrated action that includes a combination of insulation and heating systems.

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Mark Bomberg; Robert Wojcik; Jerzy Piotrowski. A concept of integrated environmental approach, Part 2: Integrated approach to rehabilitation. Journal of Building Physics 2016, 39, 482 -502.

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Mark Bomberg, Robert Wojcik, Jerzy Piotrowski. A concept of integrated environmental approach, Part 2: Integrated approach to rehabilitation. Journal of Building Physics. 2016; 39 (6):482-502.

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Mark Bomberg; Robert Wojcik; Jerzy Piotrowski. 2016. "A concept of integrated environmental approach, Part 2: Integrated approach to rehabilitation." Journal of Building Physics 39, no. 6: 482-502.

Research article
Published: 16 September 2015 in Journal of Building Physics
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Air transport control has been recognized as critical to the proper functioning of buildings. Airflow is related to all facets of environmental control because it influences transport of heat and moisture and affects indoor environment as well as the durability of the building enclosure. To a lesser degree, we also recognize that contamination of wall cavities in building assemblies by organic materials from inside or outside provides both the nutrients and the inoculation potential for mold growth. Moisture carried by air may also increase the rate of emission of volatile organic compounds from these materials. While keeping rain out of building enclosures is a primary consideration in design, controlling airflow through the building enclosure comes a close second in importance to allow environmental control within buildings. Yet, an increase in the airtightness comes with a cost as well as an increased risk of moisture entrapment in case of any failure, and this, in turn, relates to the type of the building.

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Mark Bomberg; Tomasz Kisilewicz; Katarzyna Nowak. Is there an optimum range of airtightness for a building? Journal of Building Physics 2015, 39, 395 -421.

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Mark Bomberg, Tomasz Kisilewicz, Katarzyna Nowak. Is there an optimum range of airtightness for a building? Journal of Building Physics. 2015; 39 (5):395-421.

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Mark Bomberg; Tomasz Kisilewicz; Katarzyna Nowak. 2015. "Is there an optimum range of airtightness for a building?" Journal of Building Physics 39, no. 5: 395-421.

Research article
Published: 24 November 2014 in Journal of Building Physics
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This article highlights the need for an active role for building physics in the development of near-zero energy buildings while analyzing an example of an integrated system for the upgrade of existing buildings. The science called either Building Physics in Europe or Building Science in North America has so far a passive role in explaining observed failures in construction practice. In its new role, it would be integrating modeling and testing to provide predictive capability, so much needed in the development of near-zero energy buildings. The authors attempt to create a compact package, applicable to different climates with small modifications of some hygrothermal properties of materials. This universal solution is based on a systems approach that is routine for building physics but in contrast to separately conceived sub-systems that are typical for the design of buildings today. One knows that the building structure, energy efficiency, indoor environmental quality, and moisture management all need to be considered to ensure durability of materials and control cost of near-zero energy buildings. These factors must be addressed through contributions of the whole design team. The same approach must be used for the retrofit of buildings. As this integrated design paradigm resulted from demands of sustainable built environment approach, building physics must drop its passive role and improve two critical domains of analysis: (i) linked, real-time hygrothermal and energy models capable of predicting the performance of existing buildings after renovation and (ii) basic methods of indoor environment and moisture management when the exterior of the building cannot be modified.

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Mark Bomberg; Michael Gibson; Jian Zhang. A concept of integrated environmental approach for building upgrades and new construction: Part 1—setting the stage. Journal of Building Physics 2014, 38, 360 -385.

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Mark Bomberg, Michael Gibson, Jian Zhang. A concept of integrated environmental approach for building upgrades and new construction: Part 1—setting the stage. Journal of Building Physics. 2014; 38 (4):360-385.

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Mark Bomberg; Michael Gibson; Jian Zhang. 2014. "A concept of integrated environmental approach for building upgrades and new construction: Part 1—setting the stage." Journal of Building Physics 38, no. 4: 360-385.

Book chapter
Published: 01 October 2013 in Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
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Calculations of the coupled heat and moisture transfer are necessary for energy-efficient buildings, improving IAQ and durability of building materials. While correct approach requires simultaneous consideration of heat, air and moisture transports, many architects and designers still use the water vapor transport theory without considering other environmental factors. This paper applies either of these two methods to three wall types over summer and winter seasons and compares results highlighting the limitation of the traditional method.

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Shui Yu; Xu Zhang; Mark Bomberg; Guohui Feng. Comparing Condensation Theory with Hygrothermal Models for the Mixed Climate Region of China. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 2013, 73 -81.

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Shui Yu, Xu Zhang, Mark Bomberg, Guohui Feng. Comparing Condensation Theory with Hygrothermal Models for the Mixed Climate Region of China. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. 2013; ():73-81.

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Shui Yu; Xu Zhang; Mark Bomberg; Guohui Feng. 2013. "Comparing Condensation Theory with Hygrothermal Models for the Mixed Climate Region of China." Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering , no. : 73-81.

Editorial
Published: 10 September 2013 in Journal of Building Physics
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Mark Bomberg. Editorial. Journal of Building Physics 2013, 37, 125 -129.

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Mark Bomberg. Editorial. Journal of Building Physics. 2013; 37 (2):125-129.

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Mark Bomberg. 2013. "Editorial." Journal of Building Physics 37, no. 2: 125-129.

Editorial
Published: 21 June 2013 in Journal of Building Physics
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Mark Bomberg. Editorial. Journal of Building Physics 2013, 37, 3 -5.

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Mark Bomberg. Editorial. Journal of Building Physics. 2013; 37 (1):3-5.

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Mark Bomberg. 2013. "Editorial." Journal of Building Physics 37, no. 1: 3-5.

Journal article
Published: 24 April 2013 in Journal of Building Physics
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Mark Bomberg. Editorial. Journal of Building Physics 2013, 36, 333 -336.

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Mark Bomberg. Editorial. Journal of Building Physics. 2013; 36 (4):333-336.

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Mark Bomberg. 2013. "Editorial." Journal of Building Physics 36, no. 4: 333-336.