Malki-Epshtein, Liora; (2023) The Controlled Active Ventilation Environment Laboratory (CAVE) – Resilient Buildings and Indoor Environments. Presented at: Clean Air Networks Conference 2023, Birmingham, UK.

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UCL’s CAVE is a new laboratory which just completed construction in East London, which specialises in urban fluid mechanics, air pollution, Indoor Air Quality (IAQ), and thermal comfort. The lab is designed to measure, quantify risks, provide data for model calibration and test solutions at full scale. CAVE is a complex climate- and ventilation-controlled indoor laboratory. With a plan area of 206 m2 and height of 9 m, CAVE’s large size allows fully monitored and full scale “living labs” to be built inside the laboratory space. The laboratory systems enable simultaneous creation of independent “interior” and “exterior” environments within the lab at a large temperature range (-5°C to 43°C) to reproduce a wide range of realistic climate and air quality scenarios. CAVE can be used to simulate indoor classroom environments to test impacts of building ventilation and climate control technologies or strategies, low-cost technologies and green infrastructure, for a wide range of climate conditions. The lab can enable people to participate in experiments so as to understand the user’s response to those in terms of usability, thermal comfort, social and cognitive impacts and wellbeing.

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