Ventilative cooling technologies have the potential to be an effective measure to reduce buildings energy consumption, by meeting some or all of the cooling requirement of a building without the need for mechanical cooling. Mixed-Mode (MM) buildings utilise both natural and mechanical cooling systems to meet their thermal energy demand. These buildings are able to guarantee that thermal comfort conditions are maintained, whilst exploiting the cooling potential provided by the climate. Effective management of the cooling systems in MM buildings is important to ensure that comfort is maintained and free cooling is exploited when available. While the implementation of hybrid ventilation systems is becoming more common, the current industrial and academic research state-of-the-art provide different and sometimes contrasting approaches to the management and evaluation of MM buildings. The current review provides an overview of studies into MM buildings performed in the last 10 years, analyzing in detail key factors that determine the potential of a building to save energy, including simulations inputs assumption, comfort standard used for evaluation, building and HVAC systems typologies and control strategy employed. A detailed analysis of the papers which had a focus on methods for control of hybrid ventilation system was undertaken. This highlighted the importance of coordination between systems to ensure operational effectiveness and showing that while the majority of the studies employed classical control techniques, predictive control methods were the most investigated approaches to fully exploit the potential efficiency of MM buildings.

通过满足建筑物的部分或全部制冷需求而无需机械制冷，通风制冷技术有可能成为减少建筑物能耗的有效措施。混合模式（MM）建筑物利用自然和机械冷却系统来满足其热能需求。这些建筑物能够在保持气候舒适性的同时，充分利用气候提供的制冷潜力。对MM建筑物中的冷却系统进行有效管理对于确保保持舒适性和在可用时利用免费冷却非常重要。虽然混合通风系统的实施变得越来越普遍，当前最新的工业和学术研究为MM建筑物的管理和评估提供了不同的，有时是相反的方法。当前的审查概述了过去10年中对MM建筑物进行的研究，详细分析了确定建筑物节能潜力的关键因素，包括模拟输入假设，用于评估的舒适性标准，建筑物和HVAC系统类型和控制策略。对论文进行了详细的分析，重点是控制混合通风系统的方法。这突出了系统之间进行协调以确保运营有效性的重要性，并表明尽管大多数研究都采用经典控制技术，