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Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)

What is indoor air quality (IAQ)? What factors influence it? What are the effects of poor IAQ? What solutions for good indoor air quality ?

Ventilation and home appliance: is it compatible?

Certain everyday equipment such as a fireplace, an exhaust hood or a gas appliance are they compatible with the ventilation systems in place?

Sick Building Syndrome (SBS)

SBS is characterized by symptoms experienced by several people in the same building during a working day. If 20% of occupants have these symptoms twice a week, it is called SBS. Ac ...

How to install an MEV system?

First, the installation of a Mechanical Extract Ventilation system, or MEV, must be done by a qualified technician. In addition to the information in this article, it is necessary ...

How to maintain a MEV?

For some ventilation systems, such as MEV for buildings with shared occupation, maintenance and servicing of the system is usually mandatory. To determine the maintenance and serv ...

Ventilation and savings

The only role of ventilation used to be to provide the occupants of a dwelling with the fresh air that they needed. Then, with the decree of the 24th of March 1982 in France, venti ...

Exhaust grilles and exhaust units

Ventilation allows evacuation of pollutants and prevents the accumulation of humidity in a building, which in the long term could lead to the growth of mould or damage to the struc ...

How to choose between MEV and MVHR ?

This question cannot be solved in few words, as the choice depends on plenty of criteria. The two systems are based on two different approaches to energy performance optimisation.

How to install an air inlet?

Air inlets are essential components of mechanical (MEV), hybrid and natural ventilation systems. Their installation must be perfectly mastered to guaranty optimal functioning.

Indoor pollution sources

The first objective of a ventilation system is to ensure good indoor air quality, replacing stale air with fresh air from outdoors. While indoor pollution – a result of emissions ...