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Engineering and technology
- Building physics
- Energy in buildings and built environments
The burden of disease due to exposure to air in the indoor environment is expected to change as more building owners will implement energy saving measures in response to the accelerating renovation wave. To investigate this potential change, a stochastic simulation based approach that models the burden of disease is necessary to capture the expected variations in the building stock, occupant behavior...
Two methodological research challenges need to be tackled: (1) bridging the existing research gaps to quantify the marginal effect of interventions on harm related to the indoor environment using DALYs including secondary effects and (2) compressing the information in boundary condition time series to facilitate the large amount of simulations necessary in the stochastic approach without losing the main dynamics expected to be present in the built environment.
The proposed project aims to set up an international interdisciplinary research network to support these developments.