The short-term effect of residential home energy retrofits on indoor air quality and microbial exposure: A case-control study
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Summary
This study compared the effect of change in building leakage on indoor pollutants and bacterial communities in weatherized compared to non-weatherized single-family residential homes in New York State and found that changes in airborne bacterial load are more sensitive to shifts in season, whereas radon levels are moresensitive to ventilation rate.
- Type
- preprint
- Published
- 2020-03-09
- Cited by
- 4
- References
- 94
- Access
- Open access
- OpenAlex
- https://openalex.org/W3009820289
- Semantic Scholar
- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:214727214
Keywords
Indoor air quality, Environmental science, Ventilation (architecture), Indoor air, Environmental engineering
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- Reassessing energy-efficient passive retrofits in terms of indoor environmental quality in residential buildings in the United States
- The Health and Indoor Environmental Quality Impacts of Residential Building Envelope Retrofits: A Literature Review
- Effects of energy retrofits on the indoor microbiota in Northern European apartments.
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