A high standard education is, nowadays, a clear objective for any modern society. In Portugal, the retrofit of educational buildings has an enormous relevance as demonstrated by the Program for Retrofit and Upgrade of High Schools. Educational buildings specific characteristics such as high occupancy rates and high amount of time children spend in classrooms make them a special case compared to other buildings....
The problem of moisture damage in buildings has attracted interest from the early days of the last century, but it was only with the development of hygrothermal modelling that the general topic of moisture transport in buildings became the subject of more systematic study. Today, the evaluation of the risk of interstitial condensation in building envelope components can benefi t from models of different complex...
This paper describes numerical research, using HAM-Tools program, on the moisture buffering effect ofbuilding materials. A set of numerical simulations on samples of current building materials, based on the MoistureBuffer Value (MBV) test method, were conducted under transient conditions of relative humidity (RH).The main result from these tests is the MBV number that can be used to characterize the moisture bu...
The indoor humidity is an important factor influencing the air quality and energy consumption of buildings as well as durability of building components. Indoor humidity depends on moisture sources, air change, sorption in materials and possible condensation. Since all these phenomena are strongly dependent on each other, numerical predictions of indoor humidity need to be integrated into combined heat and airfl...