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    Natural ventilation is a cost-effective building design strategy that passively supplies outdoor air through operable windows, exhaust vents, and intake vents. It improves indoor air quality and occupant comfort while reducing construction, energy, and operating costs compared to mechanical ventilation systems. When properly designed for a building's location and use, natural ventilation can fully or partially replace mechanical systems.

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    Natural ventilation is a cost-effective building design strategy that passively supplies outdoor air through operable windows, exhaust vents, and intake vents. It improves indoor air quality and occupant comfort while reducing construction, energy, and operating costs compared to mechanical ventilation systems. When properly designed for a building's location and use, natural ventilation can fully or partially replace mechanical systems.

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    Natural ventilation is a cost-effective building design strategy that passively supplies outdoor air through operable windows, exhaust vents, and intake vents. It improves indoor air quality and occupant comfort while reducing construction, energy, and operating costs compared to mechanical ventilation systems. When properly designed for a building's location and use, natural ventilation can fully or partially replace mechanical systems.

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    FACT SHEET

    NATURAL VENTILATION

    NATURAL VENTILATION is possibly the single most cost effective building design
    concept. Historically all buildings employed natural ventilation, yet ironically this practice
    was dismissed as energy inefficient as it was believed to increase heating and cooling loads.
    Natural ventilation is defined as passively supplying outdoor air to a building interior for
    ventilation and cooling. With proper design, appropriate to the building location and
    use, natural ventilation can replace all or part of a mechanical system, thereby reducing
    construction, energy and operating costs. Most importantly, natural ventilation strategies
    improve indoor air quality and improve occupant comfort, which translates directly to
    DEFINITIONS
    healthier, more productive building occupants.
    Cross ventilation, n. air flow
    through a space due to ambient
    wind patterns and resultant
    pressure differential. PROCESS
    Stack ventilation, n. air
    flow generally in the Natural ventilation takes advantage of naturally occurring phenomenon such as
    vertical direction caused by
    temperature and pressure wind, humidity, and warm air buoyancy through design of building form to bring
    differences. Also referred to as fresh outdoor air in and force stale indoor air out. Some strategies include:
    the chimney effect.
    • operable windows
    Gerding/Edlen Development Company
    • exhaust vents located high in the
    surprised even themselves when they
    LEED building’s envelope
    learned that their new commercial office
    • intake vents located low in
    EA CREDIT 1 building was leasing faster and for more
    building’s envelope
    Optimize Energy Performance than the local market rate due primarily
    1-10 points • open building plan to facilitate to operable windows.
    air movement
    EQ CREDIT 2
    Increased Ventilation • atria
    • internal stairwells
    EQ CREDIT 6.2
    Controllability of Systems: • ventilation chimneys
    Thermal Comfort
    • small fans (solar powered)
    EQ CREDIT 7.1
    Thermal Comfort: Design

    CROSS VENTILATION: locate new inlets STACK VENTILATION: height separation of


    upwind; outlets downwind. inlets and outlets promotes airflow.
    ADDED VALUE RESOURCES

    THE FOLLOWING RESOURCES


    It is easy to imagine the construction cost savings and energy savings due to natural
    SERVE AS A STARTING POINT
    ventilation reducing the size of mechanical systems. However, energy and construction FOR A LARGE QUANTITY OF
    cost savings are minimal compared to the value realized with improved occupant AVAILABLE INFORMATION:
    health, quality of life, and productivity. Consider that the average annual investment
    PORTLAND G/RATED WEBSITE
    in staff salaries and benefits is at least 200 times greater than the cost of energy to
    www.green-rated.org
    operate a building. If natural ventilation leads to only a one percent increase in worker
    productivity, the increased revenue dwarfs potential energy cost savings. “Fifteen ADVANCED BUILDING
    TECHNOLOGIES AND PRACTICES
    international case studies show that natural ventilation strategies improve productivity
    www.advancedbuildings.org
    between 0.5% and 11%.” (Gurtekin-Celic presentation)
    Translate productivity to health and happiness in other market sectors: WHOLE BUILDING DESIGN GUIDE
    www.wbdg.org/design/
    • Patients recover more quickly naturalventilation.php
    • Students perform better
    NATURAL VENTILATION IN
    • Residences sell/rent more quickly, for more money, and turnover less frequently. NORTHWEST BUILDINGS (BOOK
    DEVELOPED BY BETTERBRICKS)

    CASE STUDY www.betterbricksresources.com/


    book
    TELUS - WILLIAM FARRELL BUILDING
    CHARTERED INSTITUTION OF
    The Telus building, formerly known BUILDING SERVICES ENGINEERS
    as the William Farrell building, was www.cibse.org
    constructed in 1947. Telus, a British
    Columbia based telecom company and
    owner, had to upgrade the building to FOR MORE INFORMATION ON
    THIS TOPIC AND OTHERS, VISIT
    meet business demands and seismic
    requirements. Telus chose to preserve www.cascadiagbc.org

    the historic building but modify it to


    create an energy efficient, sleek, and
    functional structure. One artful and
    integrated design element is the “second
    skin” composed of double-wall, low-E
    coated glazing that is suspended three feet
    from the original building facade. This
    new layer provides insulation during the
    winter months and natural ventilation
    all year long. Solar powered louvers at
    the top and bottom of the facade open
    to draw cool air into the building. A
    floor-mounted plenum distributes air to
    Total Project Budget: $13 million CAD
    each floor where individually-controlled
    Building Size: 130,000 sq ft
    diffusers enable occupants to regulate air
    Intended Use: Office space/retrofit
    flow to their space. The energy saving
    Location: Vancouver, BC
    techniques employed in this building save
    520 tons of green house gases every year. Busby, Perkins + Will

    A ROADMAP FOR SUSTAINABLE BUILDING

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