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Overview
- Overview
- Major Facility/Equipment
- Applications
Construction of Housing Performance Test Facilities for Improving Life Quality
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- location
- To be decided after March, 2014
711-1, Garam-dong, Sejong, Korea
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- Major facility/equipment
- Small chamber laboratory, Large chamber laboratory, water vapour adsorption/desorption property laboratory, Detailed analysis laboratory, Micro-organism laboratory, Olfactory laboratory, Ventilation performance laboratory, Dew condensation laboratory, experimental apartment houses , Floor impact noise laboratory, Water supply & drain noise laboratory, Outdoor noise laboratory, Airflow production and control room, Monitoring room
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- Structural overview
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Site area 19,685 ㎡
Number of levels Five levels above ground with one basement level
Building area 4,280 ㎡
Gross floor area 9,425 ㎡
Structure Type Reinforced concrete & steel frame
Overview of the Testing Facility
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- Vision
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- Building the world-class facility to perform housing performance tests with citizen-oriented purposes: Acoustic empirical test building, Indoor air environment and dew condensation test building, Full-scale CV simulator test building
- Building national infrastructure for comprehensive performance evaluation tests of technical factors for residential environment improvement for the national citizens
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- Main functions
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- Performance evaluation on floor impact and other indoor noises
- Performance evaluation of technical factors related to housing performance quality including air environment and dew condensation
- Performance evaluation of ventilation and envelope air leakage for full-scale unit households
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- Features
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- Possible to provide comprehensive verification testing, to support the development of new technologies, and to promote their implementation, so as to enhance national technological competitiveness in relevant fields
- Possible to improve residential environment of the national citizens and to secure verification technologies
- Possible for small- and medium-sized enterprises and universities without testing facilities to develop new technologies for residential buildings so as to enhance national competitiveness
Major Facility/Equipment
| Building | Laboratory | Facility/Equipment |
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| Indoor air environment and dew condensation test building | Small chamber laboratory | - Small chambers (16 units) 20L |
| Large chamber laboratory | - Large chamber 24㎡, 5㎡, 1㎡ | |
| adsorption·moisture adsorption/desorption laboratories | - Measuring equipment for adsorption·moisture adsorption/desorption performance (3 units) | |
| Detailed analysis laboratory | - GC/MS-ATD(3 units), HPLC(3 units) - Elemental Analyzer, Thermal desolver |
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| Micro-organism laboratory |
- Anti-bacterial and anti-fungal measuring equipment - Impact-type air sampler (2 units), Ultraviolet sterilizing device and sensor (2 units) - Incubator, Autoclave, Clean bench & Optical microscope - Colony counter, Thermo-hygrometer, Particle counter, Spiral plator |
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| Olfactory laboratory | - CLIMAQ(12 units), Clean bench | |
| Ventilation performance laboratory | - Performance evaluation chamber for natural ventilation system, Flow meter, Manometer | |
| Dew condensation laboratory |
- sensors for temperature, humidity and air current, Constant temperature & humidity chamber, 3D anemometer Thermal imaging camera, Thermal conductivity measuring equipment |
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| verify multi-unit housing |
- Temperature & humidity sensor, Sampling pump, Thermocouple, CO2 detector, Dust indicator - Flow meter, Data logger, Thermal imaging camera |
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| Acoustic empirical test building | - Floor impact noise laboratory | - Bang machine, Tapping machine, Microphone, Amplifier, Pre-amplifier, Non-directional speaker, Directional speaker, Impact force measuring equipment, noise measuring system, Spectrum analyzer, Multi-channel analyzer for evaluation of noise and vibration impacts , Water supplying pressure controller and etc. |
| Water supply & drain noise laboratory | ||
| Outdoor noise laboratory | ||
| Full-scale CV simulator test building | CV laboratory | - 3D anemometer (12 units), Turn table |
| Airflow production and control room | - Airflow fan, Airflow visualization device and etc. | |
| Monitoring room | - Computers for analysis and etc. |
Applications
Acoustic empirical test building
- Performance evaluation of floor impact noise and vibration reduction
- Performance evaluation of water supply and drain noise control
- Controlling noise and vibration from outdoor noise sources
Indoor air environment and dew condensation test building
- Performance evaluation of indoor micro-organism control
- Performance evaluation of pollutants absorption
- moisture adsorption/desorption performance tests
- Performance evaluation of stench analysis and control
- Performance tests of building materials, electronic products and furniture for pollutant release
- Empirical tests on indoor air pollutants, and performance evaluation of ventilation load
- Performance analysis of dew condensation
- Performance evaluation of natural/mechanical ventilation facility and ventilation load tests
Full-scale CV simulator test building
- Production and control of airflow
