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The building regulations require those habitable rooms and toilets are to be
vented by natural or mechanical means.
Natural Ventilation
A habitable room requires one or more ventilation openings, the total area of
which must not be less than 1/20 th. of the floor area of the room, and some
part of the opening must be more than 1.7 metres above floor level.
When ventilation is by mechanical means, one air change per hour must be
provided to habitable rooms and three air changes per hour to bathrooms and
kitchens.
Design Criteria
To design a ventilation system, the engineer has to meet two basic
requirements:
1.
2.
To change the air in the room sufficiently so that smells, fumes and
contaminants are removed.
Building sector
sbandry
halls
Section
number
3.24.1
3.3
Recommendations
See Table 3.20
See Table 3.6
ing studios
es
nc. commercial kitchens)
ms
l residential buildings
rooms
ms
s (photographic)
oms
(inc. high-rise dwellings)
and warehouses
non-domestic) buildings
re
and health care buildings
ventilation
ies
, libraries and art
ms
nd educational buildings
retail premises
ntres (inc. swimming
rooms
3.4
3.5
3.24.2
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.24.3
3.24.4
3.24.5
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.24.6
3.13
3.14
3.15
3.16
3.17
3.2
3.18
3.19
3.20
3.21
3.24.7
3.22
3.23
45 - 60 ACH
Building Regulations apply; opening windows of area 1/20th o
area or mechanical ventilation at 6 litres/s per WC or 3 ACH m
for non-domestic buildings; opening windows area 1/20th of
(1/30th in Scotland) or mechanical extract at 6 litres/s (3 ACH
Scotland) minimum for dwellings.
6 ACH for car parks (normal operation)
10 ACH (fire conditions)
The Table below gives Ventilation rates required to limit CO2 concentration
where level of activity is known.
Table 3.2 CIBSE Guide B2 (2001) Ventilation rates required to limit CO2
concentration for differing activity levels
Activity
Seated quietly
0.8
1.8
Light work
1.3 2.6
2.8 5.6
Moderate work
2.6 3.9
N/A
Heavy work
3.9 5.3
N/A
5.3 6.4
N/A
No smoking
Some smoking
Heavy smoking
Very heavy smoking
8
16
24
36
The table below is an extract from Table 3.6 and gives rates for Assembly Halls
and Auditoria
Design Requirements : Assembly halls and auditoria
Parameter
Design requirement
Ventilation Calculations
The following formulae may be used:
Air Change Rate (/h) comes from CIBSE Guide B2 Table 3.1
Ventilation rate (m3/s) =
Fresh Air rate per person (l/s/p) comes from CIBSE Guide B2 Table 3.3.