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The Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (AIVC) together with Fraunhofer IBP in Germany organize a workshop entitled “Indoor Environmental Quality in Sustainable Buildings" to be held on 1-2 April 2025 in Stuttgart, Germany.
The 1 ½ day workshop provides the opportunity to German researchers and engineers, as well as international experts, to present and discuss recent developments in relation to indoor environmental quality, ventilation, health and sustainability of the building stock.
This workshop is part of a series of annual international workshops, which are organized by AIVC in collaboration with national research centers or energy authorities. These workshops also target regional issues in relation to ventilation and infiltration, as part of a process of knowledge generation.
The following sub-themes will be addressed:
- Status of implementation of EPBD recast
- IEQ and IAQ in relation to health and well-being
- IEQ-labelling
- Case studies in schools & care facilities
- Demand and personal control, user interaction
- Life cycle carbon impact of IEQ management systems
Presentations (confirmed so far)
Opening
- Welcome on behalf of Fraunhofer IBP & view on theme, Gunnar Grün, IBP Fraunhofer, Germany
- Overview of AIVC, Tightvent & Venticool, Arnold Janssens, AIVC Operating Agent/Ghent University, Belgium
- Introduction of Trox Foundation, Christine Roßkothen, Heinz Trox Foundation, Germany
Status of implementation of EPBD-recast
- Addressing Indoor Environmental Quality and inspection of ventilation systems: provisions in the EPBD Recast, Marco Morini, European Commission, Directorate-General for Energy (DG ENER), Belgium
- TBA, Joachim Seifert, TU Dresden, Germany
- TBA, Hans Erhorn, IBP Fraunhofer, Germany
- TBA, Claus Händel, Fachverband Gebäude-Klima e. V. (FGK), Germany
- Net Zero Energy Codes in Canada, Ian Macdonald, NRC, Canada
IEQ and IAQ in relation to health and well-being
- TBA, Lucas Schmitt, TU Berlin, Germany
- IEA Annex 86, Jelle Laverge, Ghent University, Belgium
- Smart ventilation performance from an international perspective, Gaëlle Guyot & Jean Paul Harrouz, Cerema, France
- The TAIL rating schemes for offices and schools are the way to reduce carbon emission and improve IEQ, Pawel Wargocki, DTU, Denmark
- Sustainable cooling in cities, Peter Holzer, Institute of Building Research & Innovation, Austria
- Assessment of the impact of climate change on thermal comfort in buildings, taking account of occupant behaviour and the urban context, Bassam Moujalled, Cerema, France
- Noise characteristics and psychoacoustic of outdoor heat pumps, David Goecke, IBP Fraunhofer, Germany
Non-energy impacts of sustainable buildings
- Non-Energy Impacts of Sustainable Homes, Iain Walker, LBNL, USA
- Environmental impact of heating and ventilation systems in the LCA of a Flemish single-family dwelling, Yanaika Decorte, Ghent University, Belgium
Case studies schools and care facilities
- Solutions to improve IEQ in schools, Dirk Müller, RTWH Aachen, Germany
- Indoor Air Quality in Naturally Ventilated Classrooms and Offices, James Mc Grath, Maynooth University, Ireland
- Improving IAQ in schools and non-residential buildings: case studies, Cecile Caudron, Cerema, France
- A controlled intervention study in two schools: impact and benefits of the air cleaning measures implemented, Liang Grace Zhou, NRC, Canada
- Improving air quality in UK schools: SAMHE – Schools’ Air quality Monitoring for Health and Education, Henry Burridge, Imperial College London, UK
- Ventilation concepts in classrooms: Results of a long-term study in elementary schools, Arno Dentel & Susanna Bordin, TH Nuremberg, Germany
Demand and personal control, user interaction
- NudgeFlow: The next generation of residential ventilation - tweaking the natural air flow with distributed components, Hilde Breesch, KU Leuven, Belgium
- Experimental evaluation PECS, Douaa Al-Assaad, KU Leuven, Belgium
Workshop Duration
The workshop will start on the morning of Tuesday, April 1, and conclude at lunchtime on Wednesday, April 2.
Organizers
The workshop is organized by Fraunhofer IBP together with the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (AIVC) and facilitated by INIVE (International Network for Information on Ventilation and Energy Performance).
Venue
The workshop will take place at: Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP (Nobelstr. 12, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany).
Sponsors
This workshop is financially and technically supported by The Heinz Trox Foundation.
Registration
Participation in the workshop is free. Registration is now available here.
Registration will close on Friday, March 21, 2025, and is limited to 170 participants.
Accommodation & Transportation
Detailed information about possibilities for accommodation and public transport is available here.
More information will be announced in the coming weeks.