Download Characterization of the school buildings (WP3.1)

WP3.1 Characterization of the school
buildings
SINPHONIE Project kick-off meeting
10-12 November, REC Conference Center,
Szentendre Hungary
Gabriela Ventura Silva, IDMEC-FEUP
Overview of the presentation
• Objectives
• Partners involved
• Actions and deadlines
• Proposals on content of check-lists
• Selection of the schools – suggestion of criteria
Objectives
• Collect data on aspects that potentially contribute to
poor IAQ in the selected 120 schools (general building
characteristics, maintenance, HVAC systems, cleaning,
water damaged/dampness, etc).
The information will provide highly relevant background
to understand the results of the field tests and to assess
IAQ problems in European schools;
• Organize and provide data to WP3.2, WP3.3 and WP3.4;
WP4.1 and WP4.2; and also WP5 and WP6.
Partners involved (31)
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IDMEC-FEUP
NIEH
JRC
IPH-ALB
IPH-BH
UBA-A
VITO
LABOREX
LGH
CSGL
NPHI-CZ
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HPI
THL
CSTB
UBA
UOWM
NKUA
UMIL
USiena
CNRPalermo
KTU
UMalta
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IOMEH
UAVR
UBB
TNO
HVDGM
NILU
PHA-SK
IV
UCL
Description of the work
• Task 1: Development of school and classroom checklists for
characterization of the school buildings and classrooms (building
materials, ventilation systems, furnishings and fittings, cleaning
products, outdoor sources, etc.) to provide sufficient descriptors to
compare and characterise the buildings;
• Task 2: Inspection and characterization of the school buildings and
selected classrooms. Some parts of the checklist can be completed
by the research team in advance (either from documentation
obtained about the building or by site visit), and some need to be
completed with the help of a building manager or equivalent.
Deliverables to be produced
• D 3.1.1. School and classroom checklists (Month 9)
• D 3.1.2. Data on school and classroom characterization
(Month 18)
According to the initial plan on master task 1:
month 4 – month 9
We propose to start on month 3 (December) and
finish at month 6 (final March)
Actions and deadlines
Action
When
Who
First version of school and classroom
checklists
03-01-2011
IDMEC and NIEH
Contributions
31-01-2011
All partners
Inclusion of contributions and edition
of the second version
28-02-2011
IDMEC and NIEH
Last comments
15-03-2011
All partners
Final version of school and classroom
checklists
31-03-2011
IDMEC and NIEH
Content of the school checklists
• Localization (orientation, outdoor sources, ….)
• Historic of the building
(year of construction, year of refurbishing,
important modifications (painting, new floor, etc..))
• Physical characterization of the building (area, height of ceiling,
number of storeys, number of occupants….)
• Construction techniques (double or single wall, insulation thickness,
double glass, type of ceiling…) and construction materials (brick or
concrete, type of windows frame,…)
• Indoor Building materials (floor covering, wall covering,…)
Content of the school checklists
• Status of conservation of the Building (leaks, condensation,
molds,…)
• Heating Systems (kind of heating, kind of fuel used for space heating
production,….)
• Ventilation Systems (natural or mechanical ventilation, type of
mechanical ventilation, duct material, duct insulation, position of ventilation
system intake …)
• Activities in Building
(cleaning activities, disinfection activities, use of
photocopiers, printers, handcraft products used,…)
Selection of the schools – suggestion of criteria
• Should a limitation exist on the building factors that
influence IAQ? For example define a limit on:
− Year of construction, year of last re-construction (happened at more
than 1-2 years?)
− Existence of particular indoor sources in the school: kitchen,
garage, …
• Or should the schools selected cover the maximum of
factors influencing IAQ?
Selection of the schools – suggestion of criteria
• Should the selected schools be public or private?
− In our opinion should be public!
• At least one of the selected schools per country should
have mechanical ventilation in order to accomplish with the
defined in WP4.2 (page 52 of the master):
− “These will include at least 8 schools with mechanical ventilation, to
compare the effects of different environmental conditions on the
irritative responses of schoolchildren;”
Selection of the schools – suggestion of criteria
• Should the criteria of selection within each country cover
the topics suggested in the call? For example define for
each country schools on:
– Rural zone/Urban zone
– Urban zone with very heavy traffic/Urban zone green/ Urban zone
industrialized
– Interior zone/Maritime zone
• Or should the criteria of selection be applied to the climatic
zones?
Selection of the schools – suggestion of criteria
• We need answers from all the partners, but in particular
from the partners and leaders of WP3.4 and WP5:
WP3.4 Environment context and modelling
– Task 1: Impact of traffic on IAQ
WP5 Data management, cross analysis & database
– Task 4. Source Analysis, that includes the objective:
Assess the influence of building characteristics and ventilation systems in
exposure data obtained in WP3.2 and WP.3.3
Thank you!