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Thema:: Energy performance
Unit:: Mobility & Built Environment

Measuring home ventilation

In cooperation with

UNETO-VNI, VLA

Ventilation in new-build homes is often unsatisfactory. There’s insufficient capacity, the system is too loud, or the home is not as airtight as it should be. And the consequences? Poor air quality, resulting in health risks. We develop equipment for easily measuring air quality in the home.

Together with installation engineers, suppliers, and producers of air-handling systems, we develop simple, affordable measuring equipment for detecting faults. And this is necessary. A new Dutch Quality Assurance (Building) Act will soon enter into force. This act will strengthen the position of consumers. In the future, contractors and installation engineers will have to show that a new-build home meets the legal requirements, including those for air quality. Our research shows that some 80% of new homes currently fail to meet these requirements.

User-friendly measuring equipment

Installation engineers who want to show that the ventilation they’ve installed is working properly have to hire in specialist know-how. The work requires expensive equipment and is time-consuming. We’ve therefore started a collaborative venture with the installation sector organisation UNETO-VNI, the Dutch association of air-handling equipment suppliers Vereniging Leveranciers van Luchttechnische Apparaten (VLA)

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Marleen Spiekman

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Senior scientist
You can contact me if you want to collaborate with TNO on the interface between building performance and user behavior. It is my ambition to get better performing buildings by combining these areas of knowledge, not just in theory but in practice where comfortable living and working go hand in hand with high energy quality.

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  Delft - Molengraaffsingel (NEXT)
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Piet Jacobs

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Senior researcher Indoor Environmental Quality
Please contact me if you want to improve the indoor environment and simultaneously want to save energy. My focus is on optimizing ventilation, heat recovery, filtering, local extraction and passive cooling. This to reduce the concentration of contaminants such as particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide and to prevent overheating in buildings

Within the PMC Energy Performance & Indoor Environmental Quality I am responsible for the knowledge development in the field of the indoor environment.

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  Delft - Molengraaffsingel (NEXT)
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Sten de Wit

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Senior business developer
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  Delft - Molengraaffsingel (NEXT)
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