Do you know companies providing devices useful for control the flowing-in air temperature in a natural ventilated building during winter season? Who tested and produced the sistem used in the Leicester Faculty of Engeneering new building?

-- Marco Simonetti (m.sim@katamail.it), December 07, 2000

Answers

I'm afraid I'm not terribly familiar with the building you mention.

However; I think you'd be able control winter air flow using standard devices like temperature sensors and automatic dampers. Any control manufacturer such as Seimens would have these items.

Perhaps I have missed something in your question?

-- Christopher R. Schaffner, PE (chris@greenengineer.com), January 15, 2001.

Also, there is a good case study on this building in the CIBSE Applications Manual AM10:1997 - "Natural Ventilation in Non-Domestic Buildings"

-- chris schaffner (chris@greenengineer.com), August 30, 2001.

This is prob's a bit late but there is a very useful book called Environmental Engineering which has a lot of information about the DeMontfort Queens Building including the control, plus there are more than one articles about the control of natural ventilation for the building in the CIBSE (charterd institute of building services engineers) publications : the Building Services Journal on the NET @ www.cibse.co.uk

hope this is of use

cheers

-- Stuart Howe Bsc (stuarth80@hotmail.com), April 27, 2001.

sorry address is www.cibse.org

-- Stuart Howe Bsc (stuarth80@hotmail.com), April 27, 2001.