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This position paper gives a brief overview of opportunities and challenges for ventilative cooling solutions both:

• To contribute to the 2020 objectives of the EU in the building sector with regard to energy savings and greenhouse gas emissions;
• To contain the overheating risk, which is an increasing concern in low-energy buildings.

venticool partners believe policy makers and standard bodies should take steps together with the implementation of the EPBD recast to accelerate the uptake of this technology.

The seventh issue of the AIVC newsletter was out in March 2015. Its contents include:

Many aspects of the Memorial Tunnel Fire Ventilation Test Program (MTFVTP) have made it the most comprehensive of its kind, but none more so than the test facility itself The Memorial Tunnel test facility was truly state of the art in fire ventilation testing. Starting with a two-lane mountain tunnel, the engineering consultants for the MTFVTP designed, managed construction for, and maintained a one-of-a-kind facility that allowed testing of seven ventilation concepts and was capable of withstanding nearly 100 fires-four of which were 100 megawatts (MW) (341 MBtu/h) .

Energy losses from forced air distribution systems have a significant impact on the energy efficiency of buildings. Little work has been done to quantify these losses in apartment buildings. In this paper we will discuss field measurements made on four forced air heating systems to evaluate the duct system energy losses to unconditioned basements. The apartments were heated by natural gas furnaces located in the basements. The systems had bare sheet metal ductwork exposed to the basement conditions.

This report is the result of a survey that has been carried out 1989 in compliance with the work within CIB Working Commission W57 Building Documentation and Information Transfer, Working Group 11 (WG 11 ). Two earlier editions of the report has been published as a result of a survey 1986.  This third edition contains entries from 44 countries out of which 11 are new entries and 20 are updated compared to the earlier editions. Responses from previous survey (1986) are included for those countries wich has failed to respond to the 1989 survey.