AIVC 2024 Conference: Summary of the Smart Ventilation, IAQ & Health presentations

On 9-10 October 2024, the AIVC – TightVent - venticool 2024 joint Conference "Retrofitting the Building Stock: Challenges and Opportunities for Indoor Environmental Quality", was organised by the International Network on Ventilation and Energy Performance (INIVE) on behalf of the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (AIVC), the Building and Ductwork Airtightness Platform (TightVent Europe) and the international platform for ventilative cooling (venticool). The University of Galway, the Maynooth University and the Sustainable Energy Authority Of Ireland (SEAI) were also key organisers. This successful event brought together over 180 participants, including researchers, engineers, architects, policymakers, manufacturers, stakeholders, and international organizations from 26 countries.

The conference programme featured three parallel tracks with approximately 150 presentations across the key themes of Smart Ventilation, Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and Health, Building & Ductwork Airtightness, and Ventilative and Resilient Cooling. A special session of “90-Second Industry Presentations”, was organised to disseminate exclusive information from the event’s sponsors to the conference participants, in addition to the conference exhibition.

Additionally, the conference provided a vital forum for discussions on current projects, including the IEA EBC Annex 86, Energy Efficient Indoor Air Quality Management in Residential Buildings & IEA EBC Annex 87, Energy and Indoor Environmental Quality Performance of Personalized Environmental Control Systems.

The “Smart Ventilation, IAQ & Health” track at the conference was organised in 14 sessions, 4 of which were topical sessions with a number of invited presentations:

1. Exploring Challenges and Opportunities in Decarbonizing Buildings through Building Ventilation (Topical Session)
2. Smart ventilation strategies
3. Performance-based IAQ regulations in dwellings: present and future (Topical Session)
4. IAQ in schools
5. IAQ and ventilation
6. IEQ, HVAC and airtightness
7. IAQ assessment
8. Ventilation regulations in various countries
9. The Challenges of Radon and Energy Retrofitting: Unravelling Complexities and Interaction within the Built Environment (Topical Session)
10. Performance evaluation of ventilation systems
11. IAQ in retrofit buildings
12. IAQ monitoring
13. What is new in the EPBD recast 2024 with respect to indoor environmental quality and ventilation? (Topical Session)
14. IEQ-Analysis and assessment methods

This article available here offers an overview of the main trends, ideas, and insights shared over the two-day conference, focusing particularly on Smart Ventilation, IAQ & Health.

Please follow this link to download and read the article.

Photo: Benjamin Jones (University of Nottigham, UK) delivering a summary of the Smart Ventilation, IAQ & Health track, during the Closing Session at the AIVC 2024 Conference in Dublin