Natural Ventilation: Fresh Air - Simple and Efficient

Natural Ventilation
Fresh air – simple and efficient
A major benefit to Architects

Users
Environment
Building owners
Light, airy and spacious buildings
without constraints
NCC Denmark · Architects: Schmidt, Hammer & Lassen (Left and front page)
New opportunities for the architect
Releasing the ties to mechanical ventilation systems creates new opportunities for
opening the building to natural light, fresh air and spaciousness. Without ventilation
pipes the room height can often be increased by half a metre, resulting in a better
indoor climate and a more spacious feeling. Exploiting the forces of nature provides
new opportunities and challenges for the architect. Natural Ventilation should ideally
form a part of the project from the very early stages of concept and design.
More space for more user satisfaction

With Natural Ventilation a lot of space is saved in the building. Experience shows that a mechanical ventilation system
typically occupies 4-7% of the building’s floor area. In addition to this, there is the saving of space for ventilation pipes
in the floor division that can easily take up 15% of the height of the building. The space that is made available can be
exploited by the architect for the benefit of the user and the building owner.
How Natural Ventilation works

Automatic, controlled as needed, Natural Ventilation centred on the user
Single sided ventilation

In this situation ventilation is obtained from one side
of the room. The principle can be used in e.g. cellular
office rooms.

Comfortable indoor climate
centred on the user
The Danish Masters Association · Architects: Byens Tegnestue

A stimulating indoor climate that users can influence
Ventilation through the windows is simple and easy to understand. Small variations in
the amount of airflow through the windows are stimulating and contribute to providing a
good indoor climate. Attentive contact with the world outside instead of the monotony
of a closed building is good for human well-being. Even though Natural Ventilation
is automatically controlled, the user always has the possibility of overriding the automatic
control from their own PC or via a keypad – because experience conclusively shows
that user participation in climate control gives the biggest satisfaction.
User control
Using their own PCs users can monitor the indoor climate around them. They can also make personal adjustments to
ventilation by opening and closing the windows around their working place. Automatic control is reactivated at a pre-
selected time after user control has been implemented.
Hvinningdalskolen · Architects: DAI Gruppen
Cross ventilation
When openness is designed into a building
the movement of air can be exploited to the
optimum. It could be buildings with open
space, or rooms with windows on more than
one side.

Exploiting the forces of nature
to preserve the environment
Natural Ventilation helps the environment

By exploiting the forces of nature – wind and thermal buoyancy – large amounts of
energy can be saved. Natural Ventilation meets today’s demands for handling
resources sensibly.
Reduction of CO2 emissions

The energy consumption of buildings contributes considerably to the global emission of CO2. Since the consumption
for mechanical ventilation and cooling forms a considerable part of total energy consumption in many modern buildings,
both energy consumption and resultant CO2 emission can be reduced considerably with an environmentally friendly
solution such as Natural Ventilation.
Thermal buoyancy
ASTON Group · Architects: DesignGroup
Hot air rises and this buoyancy can be exploited to ensure efficient
air change in buildings. Atria, stairwells and high ceilings all provide
opportunities for utilising thermal buoyancy.

Natural Ventilation
offers a quick return on investments
Less investment
Natural Ventilation with advanced control is considerably simpler and
therefore involves less investment in equipment than traditional
mechanical ventilation systems. Source: The Engineering College of Aarhus.
Better business economy

Effective exploitation of the forces of nature generates large savings
in energy consumption and maintenance. Natural Ventilation eliminates
the need for mechanical ventilation and cooling, which is very energy-
intensive, and at the same time saves the maintenance of technically
complex systems.
Source: The Engineering College of Aarhus.
Best overall economy

Natural Ventilation is in general terms the most economical of all
ventilation solutions. Life cycle cost calculations show that this
solution can save up to 250.000 EURO or 83 EURO/m2 by using
Natural Ventilation instead of traditional ventilation/aircondition.
Source: The Engineering College of Aarhus.
Fan-assisted Natural Ventilation

If sufficient airflow in a building cannot be achieved, a ventilator can assist Natural
Ventilation in peak load periods. Insufficient airflow can be due to lack of wind,
high outdoor temperature or a building design which does not optimally exploit
natural driving forces.

A good solution demands competency in control,
window automatics and Natural Ventilation
WindowMaster system solutions

WindowMaster has a great amount of experience with Natural Ventilation and is the leading supplier of complete
solutions for Natural Ventilation. A system solution from WindowMaster is based on our control system for Natural
Ventilation – NV Advance™. The system includes advanced motors built into the window profiles and intelligent control
of Natural Ventilation. WindowMaster takes care of system set-up and commissioning. Thereafter we can offer a service
contract to ensure the user of fully qualified support at any time after taking over the building.
Our solutions include:
Pre-evaluation of projects with Natural Ventilation
Intelligent window automatics
Advanced climate control with Natural Ventilation
Installation and commissioning
User support
Let WindowMaster assist from the beginning of the project. We are specialists in Natural Ventilation with the knowledge
and experience to supply complete, well-proven solutions of the highest quality.
Please request our reference list or visit our web-site.
We shall be very pleased to provide a project assessment without commitment.
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Natural Ventilation

Fresh air – simple and efficient

A major benefit to Architects

More space for more user satisfaction

How Natural Ventilation works

Single sided ventilation

The Danish Masters Association · Architects: Byens Tegnestue

Natural Ventilation helps the environment

Reduction of CO2 emissions

Better business economy

Source: The Engineering College of Aarhus.

Best overall economy

Source: The Engineering College of Aarhus.

Fan-assisted Natural Ventilation

WindowMaster system solutions

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