Passivent supports early design collaboration outlined by CIBSE AM10 update

The updated AM10 encourages designers to evaluate building form, airflow routes, external constraints and overheating risk at the feasibility stage before committing to a natural ventilation strategy. As a project moves from concept to a workable system it links common ventilation strategies such as cross-flow and stack effect to building geometry and stresses the importance of integrating components, controls and user interaction.

Edward Richmond, Head of Sales at Passivent commented: “Our goal is to support specifiers and building services consultants to create the most appropriate natural ventilation strategy for their project and we’ve found that early collaboration with manufacturers like ourselves and the use of design tools such as IES can make all the difference. AM10 is the go-to guide for natural ventilation design and we welcome these recent revisions, which bring the guidance in line with modern building challenges.”

Passivent’s full range of roof ventilation terminals – Airscoop, Airstract, Airstract iAT and Hybrid Plus Airstract – are available for thermal modelling via the IES Virtual Environment (VE) platform, which enables specifiers to simulate the performance of natural ventilation products within VE models. IES can efficiently model natural ventilation strategies, configure operations, run thermal simulations and conduct compliance analysis as part of the early-stage design process, providing a fast, streamlined and easy-to-use method of simulating the effects of Passivent natural ventilation roof terminals within models.

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