The 5^th venticool conference will be held on 18 and 19 September 2018 in Juan-les-Pins, France together with the 39^th AIVC conference and the 7^th TightVent conference. The title of the conference is “Smart ventilation for buildings”.

Conference Scope

Energy and climate goals have been shaping many countries’ policy and legislative agendas in the EU and beyond in the past decade. The building sector plays a crucial role in achieving these goals, considering the energy use attributed to buildings and its huge potential for improved energy performance.

Better performing buildings must ensure an acceptable Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ), by providing higher Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and comfort levels for their occupants. Building ventilation entails both challenges and opportunities to achieve this goal.

A specific challenge lies in providing smart ventilation—i.e., the desired IAQ benefits while minimising energy use, utility bills and other non-IAQ costs (such as thermal discomfort and noise). Building ventilation should also help prevent overheating with little energy use. Nevertheless, the correct functioning of ventilation systems, whether natural, mechanical or hybrid should not be compromised by excessive infiltration and uncontrolled airflows. While experience shows that these hurdles are difficult to pass, they also represent fantastic opportunities for design, method, and product development.

This is the context defining the core theme of the joint 39th AIVC, 7th TightVent and 5th venticool Conference as “Smart ventilation for buildings”.

The event will place its focus on:

• • Smart ventilation, IAQ and health relationships

• • Ventilation and airtightness

• • Ventilative cooling – Resilient cooling

Conference concept

The conference will consist of a mixture of:

• • Well‐prepared and structured sessions focused on the conference topics;

• • Presentations on invitation;

• • Presentations arising from the call for papers.

Conference topics

Specific topics of interest on ventilative cooling-resilient cooling include:

• • Thermal comfort and ventilation;
  • Coupling of ventilation with cooling systems;
  • Ventilative cooling (design, technologies, components, controls, case studies);
  • Bioclimatic architectural design towards better summer performance
  • Technologies of passive cooling and overheating prevention
  • Personal comfort control during the hot season
  • Efficient part-time or zonal cooling, including options of precooling
  • Technologies and control strategies towards energy flexible buildings

Important dates

• Deadline for abstract submission: March 1, 2018
• Notification of abstract acceptance: April 1, 2018
• Deadline for full paper submission: June 10, 2018

Conference Organisers

The conference is organised by:

• • CETIAT, the French technical centre for the heating, ventilation and air conditioning industries

• • ADEME, the French environment and energy management agency

• • INIVE, the International Network on Ventilation and Energy Performance on behalf of the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (AIVC), TightVent Europe (the Building and Ductwork Airtightness Platform), and venticool (the international platform for ventilative cooling);

Selected papers will be invited for submission to special issues of the ‘International Journal of Ventilation’ and REHVA journals.

For further information please visit the conference website at: http://aivc2018conference.org