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Engineering Laboratory / Building Energy & Environment Division

Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation Group

Projects/Programs

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Using NIST's small chamber test facility, researchers are assessing the performance of a prototype reference material to improve the measurement of volatile organic compound emissions from building products.

Contaminant Control in High-Performance Buildings

Ongoing
Objective - To develop test methods, reference materials, and control strategies to ensure low contaminant levels in low-energy buildings, and to enable their integration into product development, building design and retrofit guidance, standards, codes, and building material emissions labeling
L researcher Steven Emmerich adjusts a multi-gas analyzer that will measure carbon monoxide, oxygen, carbon dioxide and hydrocarbons concentrations produced by such a generator located, against safety advice, in a garage.

Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality in Low-Energy Buildings

Ongoing
Objective: To develop tools to define and verify high-performance indoor air quality in low-energy buildings and data needed to improve the effectiveness of high-performance building standards and programs. What is the new technical idea? The ASHRAE Position Document on Indoor Air Quality (ASHRAE
CO2 Estimate

Ventilation Performance for Novel Sustainability and Resilience Challenges

Ongoing
Objective: To develop tools, metrics, and data to enable sustainable, resilient, high-performance building and ventilation system design and operation in response to current and future challenges driven by climate change, airborne disease transmission, and other developing hazards. Also, to develop

Water Use in High-Performance Buildings

Ongoing
Objective: To develop new measurement methods, tools, and modeling techniques, and collect data to improve building water efficiency, improve water heating energy efficiency standards and codes, and quantify water quality impacts of efficiency measures on high-performance building plumbing systems