WHAT IS VENTILATIVE COOLING?

• Ventilative cooling is increasingly being evaluated as an energy efficiency strategy to achieve high-
performance buildings.
• When the right combination of climate, building function, and occupant activity is present, ventilative
cooling can maintain comfort conditions with reduced energy requirements.
• Comfort is not the only design and operational consideration in determining the applicability of
ventilative cooling to a particular project.

BUILDING COMPONENTS and CONTROL STRATEGIES : Building components of

ventilative cooling are applied on all three levels of climate-sensitive building design, i.e. site
design, architectural design and technical interventions .
A grouping of these components follows:
1. Airflow guiding ventilation components (windows, rooflights, doors, dampers and grills, fans, flaps,
louvres, special effect vents)
2. Airflow enhancing ventilation building components (chimneys, atria, venturi ventilators, wind
catchers, wind towers and scoops, double facades, ventilated walls)
3. Passive cooling building components (convective components, evaporative components, phase
change components)
4. Actuators (chain, linear, rotary)
5. Sensors (temperature, humidity, air flow, radiation, CO2, rain, wind)