Indoor air quality and ventilation
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 â 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
- Awbi, H.B, Ventilation of buildings, E&FN SPON (2003)
- Hinds, W.C., Aerosol technology: Properties, behavior, and measurement of airborne particles, Wiley (1999)
- Spengler, J., McCarthy, J., and Samet, J. Indoor air quality handbook, McGraw-Hill Professional (2001).
- Etheridge, D., Sandberg, M.Building ventilation-Theory and Measurement, John Wiley & Sons (1996).
- Steinfeld, J.H. and Pandis, S.N., Atmospheric chemistry and physics: from air pollution to climate change, Wiley (2006)
- Morawska, L. and Salthammer, T., Indoor environment: airbone particles and settled dust Wiley-VCH (2003)
Moodle Link
Prerequisite for
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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