The impact of ventilation rates on the design of office buildings
ASHRAE recently updated its ventilation standard, 62-73 (now 62-81). In its updated version, the minimum and recommended ventilation rates have been deleted; instead, ventilation levels have been proposed for nonsmoking and smoking environments, with the latter requiring four to five times the rate of ventilation air. A study was conducted to determine the impact of different ventilation rates on office building energy use, first cost, and peak electrical demand. Also studied was the effectiveness of a variety of design strategies for mitigating the impacts. The study was conducted by simulating with the DOE-2.1 computer program/sup 2/ an energy-efficient office building in five cities. The cities were selected because of their growing metropolitan populations and new commercial construction.
- Research Organization:
- Dept. of Energy, Office of Building Energy Research and Development
- OSTI ID:
- 6143563
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-820112-
- Journal Information:
- ASHRAE Trans.; (United States), Vol. 88; Conference: Semi-annual meeting of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers, Houston, TX, USA, 24 Jan 1982
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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