WR Ahern Award – AIRAH Awards 2021 finalists

Sponsored by Ecolibrium

This award goes to the best technical paper by an AIRAH member published in Ecolibrium over the previous year.

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“Change in carpark ventilation”

by Rob Lord, M.AIRAH, and Emily Smith

Ecolibrium – February 2020

This paper discusses how complacent application of the “deemed-to-satisfy” (DTS) formulae for carpark ventilation can still result in failure of the performance requirements of NCC2019.

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“Assessing the performance of fire sprinkler systems with fast-response heads”

Firas Shawash, M.AIRAH

Ecolibrium – May 2020

This paper demonstrates how computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling can be used to assess the performance of fire sprinkler systems with fast-response heads in mechanically ventilated carparks.

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“Effective integration of polymer plate heat exchangers – A simulation study for evaluating their use in tall commercial office buildings”

Dr Chris Menictas, M.AIRAH; Arjun Adhikari, M.AIRAH; Professor Guan H. Yeoh; and Dr Victoria Timchenko

Ecolibrium – June/July 2020

This paper describes a ventilation air pre-treatment method using a dry and wet polymer plate in the form of an air-to-air heat exchanger.

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