Do wool carpets ‘clean’ the air or not? A study on the sorption effects of wool carpets by sensory evaluation

Indoor air quality (IAQ) is an important aspect of maintaining human health and well-being, particularly since people spend most of their time indoors. Carpets, with their large surface area and dense fibre piles, have the potential to significantly impact IAQ by emitting and absorbing volatile organic compounds (VOC) from building materials and...

Assessing Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation to Limit Aerosol Dispersion—Literature Review

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of indoor air quality (IAQ) and ventilation, which researchers have been warning about for years. During the pandemic, researchers studied several indicators using different approaches to assess IAQ and diverse ventilation systems in indoor spaces. To provide an overview of these indicators and...

Validation of different Eulerian and Lagrangian solvers of aerosol dispersion in indoor spaces

The corona pandemic accelerated a lot of studies about aerosol dispersion and different aerosol-generating tasks ranging in intensity from sneezing to breathing. Both measurements and numerical simulations were used to understand the behaviour of aerosols. For numerical simulations, Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) simulations were used;...

Assessing Indoor Air Quality and ventilation to limit the spread of airborne pathogens – a review

The corona pandemic underlined a lack of Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and<br/>ventilation. Consequently, to limit the spread of the virus, researchers explored several indicators that, through different approaches, assess IAQ and ventilation performance in indoor spaces. This paper gives an overview of those indicators and assessment methods used to...

Automated noise modelling using a triangulated terrain model

Noise simulations are an important part of noise studies that investigate the impact of noise sources on the environment. In noise simulation, noise levels at receiver points are calculated based on the noise propagation paths between the receiver and source points. These paths are derived from the height of the terrain. In current calculation...

GeoBIM information to check digital building permit regulations

Municipalities invest a lot of time and person-hours into manual building permit checks. With the increase in computational power and the use of Building Information Models (BIM) in the building design life cycle, several municipalities are investing in automating these checks using BIM and geo-data sets. However, few examples exist of tools...