Komfort und Luftqualität im Niedrigenergie-Ziegelgebäude

Comfort and air quality in low energy brick buildings.

Brick is advertised as a building material for well-being, indoor climate comfort and sustainability. In the present boom of low-energy and passive housing projects it makes sense to test subjective, perceptible housing attributes via evaluation. Results from Austria show that housing decisions for large-volume low energy housing forms focus on site and object qualities, not on energy saving. The following report is on a Salzburg City (Austria) clay brick housing estate with low-energy standard which was evaluated via user diaries, data logger and with a carbon dioxide measuring instrument. The thermal and hygrometric comfort of the brick apartments was very good according to measurements and diaries; the air quality varied due to family size and life-style.