CIVIL-460 / 4 crédits

Enseignant:

Langue: Anglais

Remark: Pas donné en 2024-25


Summary

This course covers the fundamentals of indoor air quality and ventilation strategies for optimal building air quality. Through lectures, discussions, modeling software, a hands-on group project, students explore indoor air pollutants, their properties, emission sources, and control mechanisms.

Content

Indoor gaseous and aerosol pollution properties, sources and concentrations; sick-building syndrome; health effects; mass-balance modelling, CONTAM modelling software, pollutant dynamic behaviour and fate; source control; human exposure assessment; models for predicting source emissions and human exposure; air pollution monitoring; conventional and advanced ventilation strategies; airflow/pollution distribution; infiltration; filtration and air cleaning; ventilation standards.

Keywords

Air quality in buildings, ventilation strategies, airflow distribution, human exposure

Learning Prerequisites

Required courses

None, but familiarity with building physics is recommended

Recommended courses

  • Comfort and architecture: sustainable strategies (AR-442)
  • Building energetics (ENG-445)
  • Building physics I IV (AR PHYS)
  • Air pollution and climate change (ENV-400)

Important concepts to start the course

  • Building physics
  • Fluid dynamics
  • HVAC systems
  • Indoor environmental quality

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, the student must be able to:

  • Integrate indoor air quality and ventilation requirements into the building design and operation lifecycle.
  • Characterize sources of particle-phase, gas-phase and biological air pollutants in buildings and their impact on human health and well-being.
  • Perform basic calculations related to aerosol and gas-phase distribution, and human exposure.
  • Assess / Evaluate building air pollution control mechanisms and determine their effectiveness.
  • Perform indoor air quality assessment through handling instrumentation and conducting measurements.
  • Explore the fundamentals of indoor air quality and airflows modeling software CONTAM.
  • Analyze air quality data and prepare oral presentation.

Transversal skills

  • Plan and carry out activities in a way which makes optimal use of available time and other resources.
  • Access and evaluate appropriate sources of information.
  • Make an oral presentation.
  • Demonstrate the capacity for critical thinking
  • Take feedback (critique) and respond in an appropriate manner.
  • Communicate effectively, being understood, including across different languages and cultures.

Teaching methods

This course consists of theory lectures and a group course project that includes hands-on measurements and computer simulations.

Expected student activities

To actively participate in lectures, class discussions, and group projects.

Assessment methods

 

  • Written mid-term exam based on theory: 25%
  • Written end-semester exam based on theory: 25%
  • Course project and presentation: 50%

Supervision

Office hours Yes
Assistants Yes
Forum Yes

Resources

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)

No

Bibliography

Peer-reviewed papers and websites – it will be provided throughout the semester

  • Spengler, J., McCarthy, J., and Samet, J. Indoor air quality handbook, McGraw-Hill Professional (2001)
  • Ott, W., Steinemann, A. C., Wallace, L. A. Exposure Analysis, Taylor & Francis Group (2007)
  • Hinds, W. C., Aerosol technology: Properties, behavior, and measurement of airborne particles, Wiley (1999)
  • Seinfeld, J. H. and Pandis, S. N., Atmospheric chemistry and physics: from air pollution to climate change, Wiley (2006)
  • Awbi, H. B, Ventilation of buildings, E&FN SPON, (2003)
  • Etheridge, D., Sandberg, M. Building ventilation - Theory and Measurement, John Wiley & Sons (1996)

Ressources en bibliothèque

Moodle Link

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Dans les plans d'études

  • Semestre: Printemps
  • Forme de l'examen: Pendant le semestre (session d'été)
  • Matière examinée: Indoor air quality and ventilation
  • Cours: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Exercices: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Type: optionnel
  • Semestre: Printemps
  • Forme de l'examen: Pendant le semestre (session d'été)
  • Matière examinée: Indoor air quality and ventilation
  • Cours: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Exercices: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Type: optionnel
  • Semestre: Printemps
  • Forme de l'examen: Pendant le semestre (session d'été)
  • Matière examinée: Indoor air quality and ventilation
  • Cours: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Exercices: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Type: optionnel
  • Semestre: Printemps
  • Forme de l'examen: Pendant le semestre (session d'été)
  • Matière examinée: Indoor air quality and ventilation
  • Cours: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Exercices: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Type: optionnel
  • Semestre: Printemps
  • Forme de l'examen: Pendant le semestre (session d'été)
  • Matière examinée: Indoor air quality and ventilation
  • Cours: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Exercices: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Type: optionnel
  • Forme de l'examen: Pendant le semestre (session d'été)
  • Matière examinée: Indoor air quality and ventilation
  • Cours: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Exercices: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Type: optionnel
  • Semestre: Printemps
  • Forme de l'examen: Pendant le semestre (session d'été)
  • Matière examinée: Indoor air quality and ventilation
  • Cours: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Exercices: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Type: optionnel

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