Juan Sebastian Rios Mora

Future constructions in the context of the industrial wastelands reuse may be exposed to Vapor Intrusion (VI). VI can be evaluated by combining in-situ measures and analytical models to evaluate exposure risk in future indoor environments. However, the assumptions in the existing models may reduce their accuracy when they do not meet the characteri...

Les sites pollués (sol ou eaux souterraines) représentent un potentiel de risque pour la santé humaine et l’environnement. Il existe des outils d’aide à la gestion, en complément des mesures in-situ, qui permettent d’estimer rapidement et à moindre coût les risques sanitaires associés à l’exposition des polluants gazeux du sol dans les espaces inté...

Humidity-based DCV systems have been widely used in France for 35 years and are considered as a reference system, including for low-energy residential buildings. The on-going “Performance 2” project delivers feedback from 13 years of on-site operation in twenty-two social housing apartments. The initial project was a large-scale monitoring on thirt...

Most of the proposed Vapor Intrusion (VI) models are developed assuming a steady indoor environment (i.e., building pressure and air exchange rate). To account for variations in these building conditions, these models are coupled with multizone codes to enable more precise modeling of indoor air pollution. In this paper, semi-empirical VI models ar...

Various screening-level and analytical models have been proposed in order to evaluate Vapor Intrusion (VI) and provide assessment tools for exposure risk in indoor environments. However, many in situ investigations show important differences between predicted and measured indoor concentrations generally associated with inappropriate conceptual mode...

It is well established that vapor entry into the buildings is driven by the difference in VOCs concentration in the subsurface and soil gas pressure between the subsurface contaminated areas and the indoor spaces. Various studies have shown that diffusion is the main transport mechanism for VOCs migration in the vadose zone. However, in the neighbo...

Various vapour intrusion (VI) models have been proposed in order to predict indoor concentration of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) in buildings. However, these models tend to be conservative, and overestimate or underestimate vapour flux emissions due to several assumptions. Particularly, most of these VI models only consider an infinite uniform...