Impact of Replacement Windows on IAQ of Occupied Dwellings
4 February 2003
Key facts
- Funding Body/Client: The Department for Communities and the Local Government (DCLG)
- Project Partners: N/A
- Total Project Value: N/A
- UCL/IEDE Project Value Share: N/A
- Duration: 2003-2005
- Status: Complete
The project involved the following work:
- Identification and a telephone survey of 250 houses in which windows have been replaced
- A detailed physical survey of houses in which the IAQ had deteriorated following window replacement
- Fan pressurisation testing of 10 houses before and after windows replacement
- Air permeability testing of replaced windows
- Determination of the change in the air infiltration rate caused by window replacement both for individual properties and the UK stock in general
- Analyses of the risk of causing IAQ problems as a result of installing replacement windows using ‘Condensation Targeter’
- An investigation of the effect of installing trickle ventilators in replacement windows.
- People
PI: Ian Ridley
Co-Is: Tadj Oreszczyn and Michael Davies
R: Dejan Mumovic
- Output
The following key publications were produced as part of the work undertaken for this project:
- Oreszczyn, T., Mumovic, D., Ridley, I., Davies, M. (2005) The reduction in air infiltration due to window replacement in UK dwellings: results of a field study and telephone survey, International Journal of Ventilation, Volume 4, Number 1, June 2005.
- Davies, M., Mumovic, D., Ridley, I., Oreszczyn, T. (2005) The reduction in air infiltration in dwellings due to window replacement, The 10th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, Beijing , China.
- Ridley, I., Mumovic, D., Davies M., Oreszczyn, T. (2005) Impact of Replacement Windows on IAQ of Occupied Dwellings CI 71/6/12 (cc2425), DCLG, London
- Impact
The Final Report delivered for ODPM Building Regulations Division under the Building Operational Performance Framework
- Links
For further information please contact: Dejan Mumovic