• Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.65-71
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• 2008

The purpose of this study is to investigate an airtightness of typical Korean detached houses with field measurements. Air leakage testings by means of blower door test in accordance with ASTM E79-8 were measured in 22 detached dwellings in Daejeon and Geumsan. The results showed that detached dwellings have an average airtightness with ACH50/20 (air chang per hour at a pressure difference of 50 Pa between inside outside) of 0.82 $hr^{-1}$ which is a higher range than for typical apartments and leakage class G by normalized leakage area of ASHRAE.

• Land and Housing Review
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.69-74
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• 2020

Since the design Standard for Energy Conservation in Building was implemented in 2008 for the first time, building elements such as window and door should satisfy the minimum criteria to apply for a building. Though its regulation does not cover the whole building yet, recent demand to reduce energy consumption in building sector grows rapidly year by year and also draws a lot of interest to ensure the whole building level. For example, a Zero energy building, one of low-energy buildings, requires a customized solution to resolve the air leakage issue to meet the standards in achieving the high level of air tightness. In this study, six non-residential buildings were tested by fan pressurization method to observe the air tightness of whole building to suggest the construction guideline for air tightness of low-energy building. Five out of six tested buildings showed 0.27 to 1.16 h^-1 of number of air changes except one community center. These buildings were carefully constructed not only for building planning but also for parts where there was a concern of air leakage, thereby securing high levels of air-tightness. The construction skills were developed as a checklist to manage and supervise the construction site. It is our suggestion to use this checklist at construction sites for ZEB with the high level of air-tightness.

• KIEAE Journal
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.117-121
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• 2014

Even though a study of airtightness performance of apartment and detached house have been done constantly, there are few of studies of multi-family housing which increasing every year. Therefore, this study analyzed airtightness performance of 20 households of one room in Daejeon to investigate airtightness performance standard. All experiments were performed under the same conditions except sealing windows to investigate airtightness performance without sealing windows (natural condition) and airtightness performance with sealing windows of studio apartment. As results, (1) average ACH50 without sealing windows was 19.2/h for pressurization, and 12.8/h for depressurization and (2) average ACH50 with sealing windows was 16.0/h for pressurization, and 10.7/h for depressurization and ACH50 in both condition, ACH50 under pressurization was about 50% higher than that under depressurization. Throughout this experiment, we can figure out that about 16% of air infiltration rate is occurred in windows, and the other 84% is occurred in rest of places such as Junction structure, socket and ventilating opening.

• Land and Housing Review
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.325-332
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to measure the airtightness and Air-Flow Performance for 7th house of small apartment houses adopted window frame-type natural ventilation. All window and living room door is provide with window frame-type natural ventilation, and there is provide with manual controller. As the object of measurement, the 6th type small apartment houses with area of $33m^2$ to $51m^2$ was selected. airtightness performance was measured at the front door using Blower door system. We measured ventilation rate per hour on 50Pa pressure different between inside and outside by the 1st to 6th cases. As a result, when the natural ventilation frame was closed, average amounts are shown as the ventilation rate per hour were 2.27ACH (CASE1). and the result is similar to general apartment house (1.65~4.28ACH). When the natural ventilation frame was open, average amounts are shown as the ventilation rate per hour were 5.87ACH (CASE6). In addition, that's a 3.6ACH increased more than CASE1.