Contents
Acknowledgment 3
Abstract 4
1. Introduction 9
1.1 Background 9
1.2 Purpose Statement 10
1.3 Research questions: 10
1.4 Research objectives: 10
1.5 Significance of the study: 10
2. Literature Review 12
2.1 Energy consumption and airtightness 13
2.2 Building components & airtightness 13
2.3 Methods for measuring infiltration rates 14
2.4 Indian Scenario 15
3. Research Methodology 16
3.1 Sample Collection 17
Sample Size and its criteria 17
3.2 Onsite measurement and experimentation 17
Method of Onsite Measurements & Data Gathering 17
3.3 The procedure of the Measurements 18
3.4 Experimentation 19
Pre-test measures 19
Equipment Set-up 19
Conducting the Experiment 20
Collating the Data and Data cleansing 21
3.5 Simulation Method 21
4. Experimental Results 22
5. Simulation-based analysis 29
5.1 Simulation Methodology 29
6. Conclusions 32
6.1 Limitation of the study 32
6.2 Future scope 32
7. References 33
8. APPENDIX I 35
8.1 Blower door equipment 35
9. APPENDIX II 37