Air Tightness of New Residential Buildings in Finland

Keijo Kovanen; Jarmo Laamanen; Timo Kauppinen; Lin Duanmu

Air Tightness of New Residential Buildings in Finland

Keijo Kovanen
, Jarmo Laamanen
, Timo Kauppinen
, Lin Duanmu

Dalian University of Technology

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Abstract

The air tightness of 14 apartments in 7 apartment buildings have been measured. One of these buildings is called "low-energy building" where the air tightness has been taken notice. Also 10 single-family houses have been measured. Three of these houses are called "Passive house". The air tightness measurements have been made according to the standard EN 13829. In the standard the air leakage rate n50 indicates the tightness of building. In apartment buildings the n50-values varied between 0.3-0.7 1/h and the average value was 0.5 1/h. The low-energy building was not more air tight than the other buildings. In single-family houses the n50-values varied between 0.3-3.1 1/h and the average value was 1.9 1/h. "Passive houses" were much more air tight than the other houses.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of ISHVAC09 Conference
Place of Publication	Nanjing
Pages	207-213
Publication status	Published - 2009
MoE publication type	B3 Non-refereed article in conference proceedings
Event	6th International Symposium on Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning, ISHVAC 2009: ISHVAC 2009 - Nanjing, China Duration: 6 Nov 2009 → 9 Nov 2009

Conference

Conference	6th International Symposium on Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning, ISHVAC 2009
Country/Territory	China
City	Nanjing
Period	6/11/09 → 9/11/09

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production

Keywords

air tightness
air leakage
building
passive house

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