Setting up a database of indoor climate measurementsin recently built Belgian dwellings

摘要

One of the major sources of problems in dwellings -if not the main source- is moisture, especially due to surfaceand interstitial condensation on walls and roofs. For this reason, it seems important to evaluate the currentstandardisation and reference documents dealing with moisture and eventually to develop new assessmentmethods. This is the goal of the Belgian project "Moisture problems in roofs", carried out by BBRI, KUL, RUGand W&K. The first step is to collect a large number of indoor climate measurements in recently built dwellingsbuilt.A monitoring program is currently carried out. Temperatures and relative humidity levels are measured every10 minutes in 5 rooms (as well as outside) of 41 dwellings, during several months. CO2 is monitored in 3dwellings, in the same rooms and at the same frequency. Pressure differences across the roof are measured in 1dwelling, at a frequency of 1 measurement every minute. All these collected data are gathered in a database thatis presented in this paper. It is intended to make this database available to the scientific community.