indoor-outdoor air leakage of apartments and commercial buildings

Acknowledgements
Jeiwon Choi Deputy from LBNL performed the literature search to identify publications that
contain data on apartment building leakiness, and tracked down copies of many of the
publications.
Emily Wood from LBNL obtained additional publications, and performed most of the data
entry for the apartment data.
Craig Wray, Darryl Dickerhoff, Douglas Black, lain Walker, Rick Diamond, and Max Sherman
from LBNL gave helpful advice, including discussion of practical issues that come up when
measuring air leakage in large buildings, general impressions of data quality and availability,
and guidance on prioritizing future work.
Steve Emmerich from NlST provided unpublished data that were obtained from the u.s. Army
Corps of Engineers, and helped with interpreting the data.
Several anonymous reviewers, and Ed Vine, made helpful comments.
Please cite this report as follows:
Price, Phillip N, Shehabi A, and Chan R. 2006. Indoor-Outdoor Air Exchange Rates of California
Apartments and Commercial Buildings. California Energy Commission, PIER. Publication
number.
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