Acoustics, Ventilation and Overheating Guide and M&E Design
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Online event
Acoustics, Ventilation and Overheating Guide. General overview and relevance to M&E design
About this event
Speaker: Anthony Chilton, Head of Acoustics, Max Fordham LLP
The “Acoustics, Ventilation and Overheating – Residential Design Guide” or ‘AVO’ Guide was released in January 2020.
The overarching purpose of the AVO Guide was to address the following issues:
1) Avoid the very common situation that new residential development is assumed to have open windows as part of the assessment of overheating but assumed to have closed windows when assessing noise ingress. This lack of joined up thinking often leaves occupants with a choice of being too hot or being exposed to harmful levels of traffic noise.
2) The assumption that using carbon-intensive comfort cooling is the only solution where sites are judged to be too noisy for open windows.
3) A lack of tried and tested passive solutions for overheating control on noisier sites.
4) “Boosted” ventilation systems that are too noisy.
5) A lack of cross-disciplinary joined up design.
6) Some common misconceptions about the meaning/purpose of ventilation and terminology.
The presentation will aim to give a general overview of the guidance.
Particular attention will be given to areas where input/coordination is required from MEP/Thermal Modelling Engineers.
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