The AIVC : inernational efforts on sustainable ventilation

The Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre is operated under Annex V of the Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems implementing agreement of the International Energy Agency. The primary objective of the AIVC is to provide a high quality international technical and information forum covering the areas of ventilation and air infiltration in the built environment with respect to efficient energy use, good indoor air quality and thermal comfort. The main drivers for this work are the national and international concerns in the areas of sustainable development, responses to climate change impact and healthy buildings.
The AIVC provide different services which can be grouped as follows:
.Technical forum for all relevant international and national ventilation and related activities
.Synthesized leading edge research information to meet industry needs
.Synthesized information to the research community, policymakers, industry with emphasis
on the end-use and practice.
. Advice on cost-effective measures for energy efficient buildings and good indoor climate
conditions.
The purpose of this paper is to review the efforts of the AIVC with particular emphasis in
areas related directly or indirectly to sustainability.