Welcome to this combined website of the venticool platform and of IEA EBC Annex 62 – Ventilative Cooling, IEA EBC Annex 80 – Resilient Cooling & IEA EBC Annex 87 – Energy and Indoor Environmental Quality Performance of Personalised Environmental Control Systems
30 September – 1 October 2026, AIVC – TightVent – venticool joint Conference, Incheon, Republic of Korea
The 46th AIVC conference “Innovations in Smart Ventilation and IEQ for Resilient and Adaptive Buildings” will take place on September 30 & October 1, 2026 at the Songdo International District in Incheon, Republic of Korea. This international event will be held jointly with the 12th venticool … Continue reading →
Energy Efficiency and Indoor Climate in Buildings is out! Edition of June 2025
The June 2025 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 →
24 – 26 September 2025, AIVC – ASHRAE IEQ – venticool – TightVent joint conference, Montreal, Canada
The conference “IEQ 2025: Rising to new challenges: Connecting IEQ to a sustainable future”, organized by ASHRAE and AIVC, will be held in Montreal, Canada on 24-26 September 2025. The conference will also be the 13th TightVent and 11th venticool conference. This … Continue reading →
Recordings available from our recent webinar “Improving thermal resilience of buildings to overheating”
We’re happy to announce that the recordings of the AIVC-venticool webinar, “Improving thermal resilience of buildings to overheating: Lessons learned”, held on May 5, 2025, are now available on our website! Featured Presentations: ReCOver++ project: wrap up (Hilde Breesch, KU … Continue reading →
AIVC & venticool Webinar – Improving thermal resilience of buildings to overheating: Lessons learned | 5 May 2025 (14:00-15:30 CET)
Climate change is leading to increasingly frequent and severe heatwaves, which elevate the risk of human thermal stress in indoor environments. These conditions can make buildings uninhabitable during extreme events and long after they have passed. Therefore, it is crucial … Continue reading →
Recap: 11th meeting of the Advisory Board of Practitioners
On March 27th, 2025, representatives from the building cooling and ventilation industry along with architects and consultants convened for the 11th meeting of the Advisory Board of Practitioners (ABoP). Since early 2024, the board has been led by venticool, following its … Continue reading →
Case study investigation of overheating in low-energy homes: insights from a post-occupancy evaluation in England
A recent study by Linda Toledo et al. investigated overheating in four low-energy homes in England–three newly built and one retrofitted. Over an 11-month period, the researchers conducted environmental monitoring and gathered occupant feedback to identify the causes of overheating. … Continue reading →
New Study Highlights Effective Passive Cooling Strategies during Heatwaves
A new study by Douaa Al-Assaad et al. evaluates resilient passive cooling strategies in buildings during heat waves across different climates. Using simulations, the research evaluates the performance of passive cooling strategies such as solar shading, cool envelope materials, advanced … Continue reading →
REHVA Journal’s February 2025 Edition Features Papers from the AIVC 2024 Conference
The February 2025 edition of the REHVA Journal has been released, featuring the theme “IEQ at 44th AIVC conference, Model IEQ regulation to fulfil the EPBD 2024″! The issue includes, among other articles, a selection of papers presented at the 44th … Continue reading →
Pythermalcomfort 3.0 Released!
We are happy to announce the release of the free/open-source pythermalcomfort version 3.0, a comprehensive toolkit for calculating thermal comfort indices, heat/cold stress metrics, and thermophysiological responses in Python. Key Updates in pythermalcomfort v3.0: Multi-node models:Pythermalcomfort now includes JOS3 a … Continue reading →