Building ventilation and acoustics for people who don’t know much about building ventilation.

The architectural composition required for building ventilation, used both for low energy cooling and improved air quality, can be anathema to acoustical goals of speech privacy and noise control. This paper presents a short tutorial on the basics of cross ventilation, stack ventilation, comfort ventilation, and indoor air quality as it relates to climate, building type, and indoor pollutants. It is geared to those without significant prior knowledge and follows a similar tutorial on geothermal systems, presented at the Miami ASA conference.