5. Ventilation in apartment buildings

5.1 Natural ventilation

Natural ventilation is linked to wind and air movement caused by the temperature difference between inside and outside the home.

The air is extracted from wet rooms (shower rooms, toilets, kitchen) either through grilles on the facade, or through ducts. These ducts can be of two types: individual or "shunt".

Individual ducts connect bathrooms, toilets and kitchens directly to the roof. The ducts corresponding to different rooms or dwellings do not communicate with each other. This type of installation was used in buildings until the mid-1960s.

With the "shunt" system, bathrooms, toilets and kitchens, located one above the other, are connected to a vertical flue.

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BERGNER (A) - Ventilation et traitement de l'air dans les bâtiments tertiaires -

Standards

Building work – Mechanical ventilation systems - NF DTU 68.3 - Novembre 2017
Building ventilation – Conduit network – Requirements for components designed to facilitate the maintenance of duct systems (classification index: E51-734) - NF EN 12097 - Novembre 2006
Building ventilation – Conduit network – Resistance and tightness of circular sheet metal conduits (classification index: E51-717) - NF EN 12237 - Juin 2003

Regulations

Air quality decrees and orders

Decree of October 22, 1955 on ventilation in new housing.

Decree 2012-14 of January 5, 2012 on the evaluation of ventilation means and the measurement of pollutants carried out as part of the monitoring of indoor air quality in certain establishments open to the public.

Decree 2015-1000 of August 17, 2015 on indoor air...