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SUMMARY:SMART LIVING LUNCH | Influence of ambient air pollution on natural
  ventilation potential in Europe
DTSTART:20210511T110000
DTEND:20210511T120000
DTSTAMP:20260916T230212Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Join our next Smart Living Lunch online on 11 May 2021 from 11
 :00 to 12:00. Evangelos Belias (HOBEL\, EPFL) will present the influence o
 f ambient air pollution on natural ventilation potential in Europe. Zoom l
 ink on demand.\nNatural ventilation (NV) is a technique\, which can improv
 e the buildings' energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality when i
 t is adequately designed and operated. Nevertheless\, the urban environmen
 ts contain a plethora of factors limiting the applicability of NV\, such a
 s the surrounding buildings\, noise\, and ambient air pollution. In parall
 el with the climate\, these parameters define the NV potential (NVP) of an
  area.  The existing NVP calculation methods are either complex and diffi
 cult to be used\, either they neglect the influence of some parameters\, l
 ike the ambient air pollution.\nResearch conducted within HOBEL proposes a
  new methodology for quantifying the NVP by considering the climate and am
 bient air pollution. This method was used to estimate the NVP of urban and
  suburban sites of 27 European cities. The results revealed that the level
  of urbanization and proximity to traffic reduces the local NVP on average
 : 11% for suburban background sites\, 28% for suburban traffic sites\, 22%
  for urban background sites\, and 50% for urban traffic sites. This method
  can aid designers in estimating a building's NVP and implement NV without
  increasing occupants' exposure to outdoor air pollution.\nThis project ha
 s received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and inn
 ovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 75
 4354\, and from EPFL.
LOCATION:https://www.smartlivinglab.ch/en/smart-living-lunch-natural-venti
 lation/
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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