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Exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is an important contributor to global human disease burden, particularly indoors where people spend the majority of their time and exposure is highest. We propose a framework linking indoor PM2.5 emissions from human activities to exposure and health impacts, expressed in Disability-Adjusted Life Years (D...
Pollutants – gases or particles – are emitted in indoor air by different sources such as building materials, furniture, occupants and their activities. Spending over 80 % of our time indoors, we are directly exposed to substances that are potentially harmful to our health. Through measurements and simulation tools, the concentrations of these subst...
We develop a numerical model coupling heat and chemical transfers in the building envelope to predict human exposure to pollutants and heating load as affected by changes in temperature and building design. We characterize the effect of temperature variation by season and location on chemical emission dynamics from building materials and the result...
This paper aims to develop a Life Cycle Assessment-based methodology to assess and compare the potential burden shifting between indoor air quality and energy consumption, as well as between the building construction and use stages, focusing on three insulation materials. We model the complete cause-to-effect chain to determine the mass of substanc...
By analogy to conventional environmental impacts, the potential release of debris or generation of fragments can be considered as the emission of an environmental stressor damaging the orbital ‘natural’ resource which supports space activities. Hence, it appears relevant to integrate systematically the impact of the emission of debris on the orbita...
Nous passons environ 90 % de notre temps dans des environnements intérieurs (à la maison, dans les transports, au travail, dans les lieux de loisirs et de commerces). Nous y sommes exposés à une grande diversité de polluants nocifs pour notre santé : composés organiques volatiles (COVs) ou semi-volatiles (COSVs), composés inorganiques (oxyde d’azot...
People spend on average 80% of their time indoors while several monitoring campaigns showed that high levels of organics and particulate matter (PM) could be reached (Blanchard et al., 2014; Morawska et al., 2017). Conventional indoor air quality (IAQ) diagnostics are based on measurements, and thus expensive and time-limited. To overcome this issu...
Construction project is a major learning of the civil engineering educational program. However, the related knowledge is difficult to apprehend and assimilate during lectures since it is theoretical and practical work or tutorials on the subject are scarce. To address this issue, the authors developed DOMEGO, a game for teaching construction projec...
This study aims to systematically evaluate and extend the validity domains of multiple mechanistic models of chemical emissions from building materials. We compare the validity domain of the analytical solution with four numerical solutions for a single layer material with one convective surface and a wide range of chemical properties, material thi...
Pandemic is a major global risk around the word for our societies, changing our way of live to protect our own health and that of others. At a time when lock down will end in most of the western European countries, ventilation could be an efficient mean to reduce infection risk to COVID-19 in buildings with high occupation density.
In this investig...
Satellites orbiting Earth are used in many areas and disciplines, including space science, Earth observation, meteorology, climate research. A rising sustainability concern is occurring in the space sector: 29,000 human-made objects, larger than 10cm, are orbiting the Earth but only 6% are operational spacecraft. The others, considered as space deb...
The construction sector is undergoing a profound transformation driven by energy and environmental concerns. The design solutions proposed to meet these objectives must not compromise indoor air quality (IAQ). Despite the major public health risks associated with this issue, design actors lack tools to assess the performance of the design solutions...
Life cycle assessment (LCA) has proven its worth in modelling the entire value chain associated with the production of goods and services. However, modelling the consumption system, such as the use phase of a product, remains challenging due to uncertainties in the socio-economic context. Agent-based models (ABMs) can reduce these uncertainties by...
Building design involves many challenges and requires to take into account the interaction between the building and the users. Different occupant behaviour models implemented with building simulation tools (thermal, air quality, lighting) have been proposed. Among these, models based on the agent approach seem to be the most promising. However, exi...