Energy-led retrofitting of solid wall dwellings – technical and user perspectives on airtightness

Phillip Frank Gower Banfill; Sophie Ann Simpson; Victoria Haines; Rebecca Mallaband

Energy-led retrofitting of solid wall dwellings – technical and user perspectives on airtightness

Phillip Frank Gower Banfill
, Sophie Ann Simpson
, Victoria Haines
, Rebecca Mallaband

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Abstract

Mechanical ventilation with heat recovery (MVHR) is increasingly being promoted in the UK as a means of reducing the CO2 emissions from dwellings, and installers report growing activity in the retrofit market. In parallel with a survey of householder preferences and practices, the behaviour of a whole-house MVHR system installed in an experimental house, purpose built to typical 1930s standards, has been simulated.
The range of air permeability values corresponded to those achieved in a retrofit upgrading process carried out on the house. In the house considered, air permeability, as measured in a 50 Pa pressurisation test, must be reduced below 5 m3/m2.h for MVHR to make an overall energy and CO2 saving. This required a level of disruption that would be unlikely to be tolerated by owners of solid wall dwellings.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	COBRA 2011, Proceedings of RICS Construction and Property Conference
Pages	430-440
Number of pages	11
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	RICS Annual Construction, Building and Real Estate Research Conference 2011 - Salford, United Kingdom Duration: 12 Sept 2011 → 13 Sept 2011

Conference

Conference	RICS Annual Construction, Building and Real Estate Research Conference 2011
Abbreviated title	COBRA 2011
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Salford
Period	12/09/11 → 13/09/11

Keywords

airtightness
dwellings
householders attitudes
mechanical ventilation

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Banfill, PFG, Simpson, SA, Haines, V & Mallaband, R 2011, Energy-led retrofitting of solid wall dwellings – technical and user perspectives on airtightness. in COBRA 2011, Proceedings of RICS Construction and Property Conference. pp. 430-440, RICS Annual Construction, Building and Real Estate Research Conference 2011, Salford, United Kingdom, 12/09/11. <http://www.cobra2011.org/images/stories/proceedings_final.pdf>

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Energy-led retrofitting of solid wall dwellings – technical and user perspectives on airtightness

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