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Renovair

Book - Report

Subtitle:Explorative study on the quality of the indoor environment in buildings after (energy-efficient) renovations
The Renovair study was initated with the following objectives:

1) Generating representative data for Flanders on indoor environments pre and post energyefficient renovations, in order to explore the impact of specific renovations on the indoor environment, identify critical aspects and knowledge gaps;
2) Generating data on indoor environments post energy-efficient renovations, in order to
create a database on the IEQ in renovated buildings that can then be evaluated against
indoor environments of newly built energy-efficient buildings (the Clean Air Low Energy
Study, LNE 2013) as well as the average Flemish indoor environment in a dwelling
(Surveillance of health complaint-free houses, AZG 2012).
3) Exploring the impact of time on the decay of indoor pollutants after the use of new,
specific building materials.

Renovair is a pilot study, in which a relatively small sample size is characterised very deeply, chemically, microbiologically, physically as well as in terms of the building enveloppe's air tightness, ventilation and surface termperature. The authors are aware of limitations that are related to this study design, which includes the fact that none of the study outcomes' significance can be assessed. Instead, the data are reported and analysed in a descriptive way. A pre-defined set of selection criteria was applied in order to select cases, that are representative for the current and future building trends, and can be extrapolated to the rest of Flanders.
Number of pages: 101
Publication year:2016
Keywords:indoor air quality
Accessibility:Open