Residential buildings studies

Pinelli et al. 2007) and has recently been extended to include commercial-residential buildings that house a non-negligible share of the population in urban areas. This building stock has been divided, following a recent study by Pita et al. (2008), into low rise buildings (1-3 stories) and mid-high rise buildings (4-1- stories). 

Jump, D. A. Walker, I. S. Modera, M. P. (1996). Field Measurements of Efficiency and Duct Retrofit Effectiveness in Residential Forced Air Distribution Systems. In Proceedings of the ACEEE 1996 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Vol. 1, pp. 147-155. Washington, DC American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. 

Abstract Building products, furnishings and other indoor materials often emit volatile and semivolatUe organic compounds (VOCs and SVOCs). With respect to a healthy indoor environment, only low emitting products, which do not influence the indoor air quality in a negative way, should be used in a building. Therefore, materials and products for indoor use need to be evaluated for their chemical emissions. Many emission studies have shown that the types of sources in occupational and residential indoor environments, the spectrum of emitting VOCs and SVOCs, the emission rate and the duration of emission cover a wide... 

There are studies to model the sick building syndrome in residential interiors depicting the relationship between common health problems and factors leading to sick building syndrome [6]. 

J.-Fr. Hake et al. [92] compared the conventional generation of heat and electricity to that of small-scale combined heat and power generation by high-temperature fuel cells, and the results of which are shown in Fig. 13.16. The small-scale CHP devices studied were used to provide electricity, space heat, and warm water to both residential and commercial buildings. The conventional generation of electricity is much less efficient than that of small-scale CHP devices due to... 

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