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Post-COVID Ventilation - New Design, Air Distribution and Operation Methods to Improve Indoor Air Quality and Energy Performance

Grant number: PRG2154

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Start & end year

    2024
    2028

  • Known Financial Commitments (USD)

    $210,601.04

  • Funder

    Estonian Research Council

  • Principal Investigator

    Kurnitski, Jarek

  • Research Location

    Estonia

  • Lead Research Institution

    Tallinn University of Technology

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Secondary impacts of disease, response & control measures

  • Research Subcategory

    N/A

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Not Applicable

  • Vulnerable Population

    Not applicable

  • Occupations of Interest

    Not applicable

Abstract

This proposal focuses on new ventilation methods and fundamentals with the aim to develop design methods and ventilation systems for future zero emission buildings. EU Renovation wave strategy planning to renovate about 75% of EU building stock provides an excellent opportunity to improve indoor air quality (IAQ) at the same time. Relying on multidisciplinary consensus postulating that ventilation is the main engineering measure ensuring airborne infection control this proposal aims to develop a new infection-risk based ventilation design method as well as ventilation effectiveness measurement method applicable with point contaminant source corresponding to infector. As future buildings should offer IAQ regulation, data driven continuous IAQ performance monitoring algorithms would be developed to ensure reliable operation of demand-controlled ventilation systems. If successful, this proposal can change the way how ventilation would be designed and implemented in future buildings.