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A Collection of Dwellings to Represent the U.S. Housing Stock

February 4, 2025
Author(s)
Nathan Lima, Andrew K. Persily, Steven Emmerich
This report presents a comprehensive update to the collection of dwellings used to represent the U.S. housing stock, reflecting changes and trends up to the year 2024. This update aims to ensure the collection remains relevant and accurately mirrors the

Sensitivity Analysis of CO2 Concentrations as Ventilation Metrics

October 5, 2023
Author(s)
Oluwatobi Oke, Andrew K. Persily
An approach has previously been developed to estimate space-specific carbon dioxide (CO2) levels that can serve as metrics for the adequacy of outdoor ventilation rates. These metrics are based on the CO2 concentration expected in a space given its

Plumbing System Models for a Set of Reference Buildings

September 21, 2023
Author(s)
Stephen Zimmerman, Andrew K. Persily
Reference buildings have been defined previously and successfully applied to energy and indoor air quality analyses, providing a platform for consistent comparisons between different building design and operation scenarios. One such set of reference

November 2022 NIST Premise Plumbing Research Workshop: Summary and Findings

July 28, 2023
Author(s)
Andrew K. Persily, Marylia Duarte Batista, William M. Healy, Mark A. Kedzierski, Lingnan Lin, Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti, Tania Ullah, David A. Yashar, Stephen Zimmerman
Premise plumbing systems need to meet a range of performance goals including occupant health and comfort, energy and water efficiency, and reduced environmental impacts. Pressures to improve water efficiency and building water quality, combined with the

Application of Indoor CO2 in Response to the Pandemic

April 3, 2023
Author(s)
Andrew K. Persily, Oluwatobi Oke
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been many recommendations to monitor indoor CO2 concentrations. However, the technical basis for these recommendations and stated concentration limits are not always clear. This article discusses the

Workshop on Incorporating Climate Change Data in U.S. Building Codes and Standards

March 8, 2023
Author(s)
Jason D. Averill, Therese P. McAllister, Andrew K. Persily, Scott Weaver, James Whetstone, Jiann C. Yang, Michael Kuperberg, Sumant Nigam, Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas
NIST hosted a workshop to advance the availability of climate information sought by organizations developing standards, model building codes, and voluntary certifications by convening interactions between the building codes and climate science communities.

Development and Application of an Indoor Carbon Dioxide Metric

July 19, 2022
Author(s)
Andrew K. Persily
Indoor carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations have been considered for decades in evaluating indoor air quality (IAQ) and ventilation, and more recently in discussions of the risk of airborne infectious disease transmission. However, many of these