The international workshop on “Ventilation and Airtightness in Buildings : Voluntary and Regulatory Frameworks to Improve Quality and Compliance” will be held in Lund, Sweden on March 16-17, 2015. One topic of specific attention...
The edited proceedings of the AIVC -TightVent International Workshop: "Securing the quality of ventilation systems in residential buildings: existing approaches in various countries" held in Brussels, 18-19 March, 2013 are...
Over the past few years, there has been an increasing number of airtightness tests performed in Europe either for specific high performance buildings programmes or for a wide range of buildings in regulatory contexts. This has led to the development...
The venticool platform was inaugurated in September 2012 in response to the needs felt to increase awareness regarding ventilative cooling and to foster exchanges on this topic both for practitioners and researchers. 15 months later, its relevance...
The BUILD UP Web Seminar Indoor air quality and thermal comfort: Conserving energy, maintaining health video recordings and slides are now available at:
http://www.buildup.eu/news/39371
Follow the links below to download the summaries of the ventilative cooling and airtightness tracks of the 34th AIVC conference, 2013:
http://venticool.eu/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/VC-summary_VF-2.pdf
http://tightvent.eu/wp-content/...
The AIVC 2014 Conference website is now available at: http://aivc2014conference.org/
On November 14 , the Executive Committee of the IEA ‘Energy conservation in Buildings and Community Systems’ programme approved Annex 62 “ventilative cooling” for a 4 years working phase. The venticool platform...
We are pleased to present you the new AIVC website. Since 2001, the AIVC website had the same look and feel and we thought it was time for a fundamental change. We hope that this new website will please you.
In addition to the new look...
The TightVent network was launched in January 2011 with a specific focus on building and ductwork airtightness. The 2011, 2012 and 2013 AIVC conferences were combined with the 1st, 2nd and 3rd TightVent conference. In addition, there are...
Ventilative cooling refers to the use of natural or mechanical ventilation strategies to cool indoor spaces. The use of outside air reduces the energy consumption of cooling systems while maintaining thermal comfort. The most common...