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Ventilation regulations in various countries

DESCRIPTION OF THE SESSION

The current trend in most European countries regarding building ventilation is to follow the “build tight, ventilate right” strategy. New energy efficient buildings are indeed getting more and more airtight to avoid energy losses through uncontrolled air leakages. Therefore, mechanical ventilation systems are installed to ensure a good indoor air quality (IAQ) with controlled ventilated air flowrates.
In 2008 a series of VIP (from VIP 17 to VIP 27) were published by the AIVC, detailing the “Trends in the building ventilation market and drivers for changes” for 10 countries. Regulations have however evolved a lot in most countries since then. Two new series of VIPs is being published to get an update on the current regulations in European countries one series regarding building and ductwork airtightness and another series regarding ventilation regulation.
They include information regarding national trends in:

-IAQ requirement and market (including requirements for residential and non-residential buildings)
-Energy requirements and market
-Inspection of ventilation systems
-Innovative systems and market

And it provides an example of mandatory flowrate of typical buildings.

OBJECTIVES OF THE SESSION
The objective of this session is to present three of the published (or under revision) AIVCVIPs on ventilation regulations, giving a view of the current situation in different countries.

SESSION PROGRAMME

  1. Introduction: Presentation of the new VIP serie: objective and lay-out-Valerie Leprince, Cerema, France
  2. Trends in building ventilation requirements and inspection in Spain, Pilar Linares, IETcc-CSIC, Spain
  3. Trends in building ventilation requirements and inspection in Ireland, Simon Jones, Air Quality Matters, Ireland
  4. Status and trends of ventilation in Belgium, Arnold Janssens, Ghent University, Belgium
  5. Trends in building ventilation requirements and inspection in France. Gaëlle Guyot Cerema, France
  6. Discussions:

SESSION CHAIRS

  1. Valérie Leprince, Cerema, France
  2. Simon Jones, Air Quality Matters, Ireland

SESSION DURATION

  • 75 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).