Dear visitor,Welcome to this combined website of the venticool platform and of IEA EBC Annex 62 – Ventilative Cooling & IEA EBC Annex 80 – Resilient Cooling
Submit your abstracts for the AIVC – venticool – TightVent 2024 Conference, Dublin
We are pleased to announce that the AIVC 2024 Conference “Retrofitting the Building Stock: Challenges and Opportunities for Indoor Environmental Quality” is now accepting abstracts & proposals for topical sessions. The Conference will be held on October 9-10, 2024, at Croke Park, … Continue reading →
Energy Efficiency and Indoor Climate in Buildings is out! Edition of November 2023
The November 2023 issue of the “Energy Efficiency and Indoor Climate in Buildings” newsletter has just been released. This monthly online newspaper contains relevant information on the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (AIVC), the building and ductwork airtightness platform (TightVent … Continue reading →
Save the date! Meeting #08 of the Advisory Board of Practitioners for Annex 80 & venticool & AIVC!
The Advisory Board of Practitioners an initiative of Annex 80, AIVC and venticool, was founded to put results of scientific research into action by establishing strong ties to practitioners and to include their practical experience in future research projects. So … Continue reading →
9 – 10 October 2024 – 44th AIVC – 12th TightVent – 10th venticool conference in Dublin, Ireland
The 44th AIVC conference “Retrofitting the Building Stock: Challenges and Opportunities for Indoor Environmental Quality” will be held on 9 & 10 October 2024 in Dublin, Ireland together with the 12th TightVent conference and the 10th venticool conference. The conference will take place at Croke Park. Conference Scope In a … Continue reading →
AIVC 2023 Conference programme available!
The date for the AIVC -TightVent – venticool 2023 Conference: “Ventilation, IEQ and health in sustainable buildings” is now approaching quickly! The conference will be held during 4-5 October 2023 in Copenhagen, Denmark. More than 190 people have booked their seats for the … Continue reading →
Importance of good resilient building design and standards to ensure good ventilative cooling performance to reduce overheating and environmental impact
We are happy to share with you information on a topical session dedicated to ventilative cooling namely “Importance of good resilient building design and standards to ensure good ventilative cooling performance to reduce overheating and environmental impact”, set to take … Continue reading →
Register now for the AIVC 2023 Conference | 4-5 October 2023, Copenhagen
The date for the AIVC -TightVent – venticool 2023 Conference: “Ventilation, IEQ and health in sustainable buildings” is now approaching quickly! The conference will be held during 4-5 October 2023 in Copenhagen, Denmark. More than 160 people have booked their seats for the … Continue reading →
The CBE Thermal Comfort Tool
The Center for the Built Environment (CBE) Thermal Comfort Tool, developed at The University of California at Berkeley, is a free online thermal comfort tool allowing users to perform complex thermal comfort calculations and offers dynamic and interactive visual representations … Continue reading →
Heat-related mortality in Europe during the summer of 2022
The recent article “Heat-related mortality in Europe during the summer of 2022” by Joan Ballester et al. dated July 10, 2023 and published in the Nature Medicine journal, quantified the mortality associated with record-breaking temperatures during the summer of 2022, … Continue reading →
The growing energy demand for cooling and the significance of energy efficiency
A recent article by the International Energy Agency (IEA), released on July 21,2023, focuses on the recent 2023 unprecedented heatwaves which have led to record breaking temperatures, thus driving demand for air conditioning higher and straining electricity grids worldwide. The … Continue reading →