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Assessment of ventilation rates inside educational buildings in Southwestern Europe: Analysis of implemented strategic measures by Antonio J. Aguilar; María L. de la Hoz-Torres; Nélson Costa; Pedro Arezes; María D. Martínez-Aires; Diego P. Ruiz is a Engineering article available to read on EtoBox.
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The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has highlighted the need to ensure good indoor air quality. Public buildings (educational buildings in particular) have come under the spotlight because students, teachers and staff spend long periods of the day indoors. This study presents a measurement campaign for the assessment of ventilation rate (VR) and ventilation strategies in educational buildings in Southwestern Europe, Portugal and Spain. A representative sample of the teaching spaces of the Azurém Campus (Guimarães, Portugal) and the Fuentenueva Campus (Granada, Spain) have been analyzed. Natural ventilation is the predominant ventilation strategy in these spaces, being the most common strategy in educational buildings in Europe. VR was estimated under different configurations, using the CO 2 decay method. Subsequently, the CO 2 concentration was estimated according to occupancy and the probability of infection risk was calculated using the Wells-Riley equation. The obtained VR varied between 2.9 and 20.1 air change per hour (ACH) for natural cross ventilation, 2.0 to 5.1 ACH for single-sided ventilation and 1.8 to 3.5 for mechanically ventilated classrooms. Large differences in CO 2 con
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- Author
- Antonio J. Aguilar; María L. de la Hoz-Torres; Nélson Costa; Pedro Arezes; María D. Martínez-Aires; Diego P. Ruiz
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Engineering (Physical Sciences)