State of the art of PECS (Personal Environmental Control Systems)

DESCRIPTION OF THE SESSION

Personal Environmental Control System (PECS)hasthe capabilities of providing thermal,airquality,luminous,and acoustic comfort along with controlling the localized environment inoccupant’s immediate surroundings.This session is based on the works ofIEA-EBCAnnex 87,Energy and Indoor Environmental Quality Performance of Personalized Environmental ControlSystemsand will emphasis on a large literature review.The90-minute session willafter a short introduction to the annexhave four presentationsfromfour subtasks of five subtasks of Annex 87.For each of the subtasks an extensive literaturereview has been performed and the results will be presented in this session.After eachpresentation there will be time for questions and at the end time foran overall discussion of thework of Annex 87.

OBJECTIVES OF THE SESSION
The primary objective of the session on Personal Environmental Control Systems (PECS) isto elevate the technical dialogue on the work carried out by IEA-EBCAnnex 87 in thedomainof PECS.Theobjective of this session is to present state of the artregarding PECS.

SESSION PROGRAMME

  1. Introduction to IEA-EBC Annex87. Bjarne W. Olesen, ICIEE.SUSTAIN, DTU, Denmark
  2. Effect of Personalized Environmental Control Systems on Occupants’ Health, Comfort and Productivity. Bjarne W. Olesen, ICIEE.SUSTAIN, DTU, Denmark
  3. Personalized environmental control systems (PECS): Overview of applications, technology classification and KPIs. Kai Rewitz, RWTH-Aachen, Germany
  4. Personalized environmental control systems (PECS): Overview of evaluation methods, Douaa Al-Assaad, KU-Leuven, Belgium.
  5. Policy Strategies and Market Perspective of Personalized Environmental Control Systems.Rajan Rawal, CEPT-University, India

SESSION CHAIRS

  1. Bjarne W. Olesen,IEEC_DTU,Denmark
  2. Rajan Rawal,CEPT-University,India

SESSION DURATION

  • 90 minutes
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Prof. Sani Dimitroulopoulou (UK Health Security Agency, UKHSA)

Sani is a Principal Environmental Public Health Scientist, Air Quality and Public Health, UKHSA (formerly Public Health England, PHE) leading on indoor air quality and health.
She is also Visiting Professor, at Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, The Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources, UCL.
 
Her research interests include exposure assessment to air pollution, based on modelling and monitoring of outdoor and indoor air pollution and ventilation, health impact assessments and development of environmental public health indicators and indoor air quality guidelines.
She works closely with colleagues from UK Government Departments (e.g. DHSC, DfE, DLUHC, Defra, DESNZ) and Organisations (e.g. WHO, NICE, CIBSE, RCP/RCPCH, BSI) to provide expert advice on indoor air quality and health. She participated in the Cross Whitehall Group for the revision of the Building Regulations, Part F and she sits on the Advisory Board organised by DLUHC for the revision of HHSRS (Housing Health and Safety Rating System). She was the UKHSA project manager for the development of the DHSC/UKHSA/DLUHC guidance on “Damp and mould: understanding and addressing the health risks for rented housing providers”. She is the Chair of UK Indoor Environments Group (UKIEG).

Dr. Ana Maria Scutaru

Ana Maria Scutaru is a scientist at the German Environment Agency (UBA) in Berlin. She received her PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the Institute of Pharmacy at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2011. Her work focuses on the health-related evaluation of building products emissions into indoor air and other indoor air related topics. Ana Maria Scutaru is the secretary of the Committee for Health-related Evaluation of Building Products (AgBB) and of the EU-LCI Working Group within the harmonisation framework for health-based evaluation of indoor emissions from construction products in the European Union.

Corinne Mandin earned her PhD in environmental chemistry from the University of Rennes, France.
She has been working on human exposure to chemical substances and physical agents and the related health effects, first at INERIS (French national institute for industrial environment and risks) for 8 years, and then at CSTB (French scientific and technical center for building) for 13 years. At CSTB, she coordinated the French Indoor Air Quality Observatory, a public research program created in 2001 to carry out nationwide surveys on air quality in buildings. In 2022, she joined the French institute for radiation protection and nuclear safety (IRSN) where she leads the radiation epidemiology group.
She has been involved in various European and international projects and expert committees, including at the World Health Organization and the European Joint Research Center. She is currently chairing the expert committee dedicated to outdoor and indoor air quality at the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (Anses). She was president of the International Society for Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ) from 2020 to 2022. In 2022, she coedited the Handbook of Indoor Air Quality (Springer).