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The January 2021 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 Europe), the platform for resilient ventilative cooling (venticool), the Dynastee network, the Indoor Environmental Quality – Global Alliance (IEQ-GA) & EU relevant information. The paper is available at the first week of every month at: http://news.inive.org/
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The 17th issue of the venticool newsletter is now available! Specific contents include:
- 13 ‐15 September 2021 – 41st AIVC & 7th venticool ‐ASHRAE IAQ joint conference in Athens, Greece
- IEA EBC Annex 80 Resilient Cooling of Buildings proceedings from the third Expert Meeting
- Developing resilient ventilative cooling for better comfort and energy savings in buildings
- Feedback from the December 9th webinar on Resilient Ventilative Cooling in practice
- Update on standardization projects on Ventilative cooling and Ventilation systems in CEN and ISO
- NTA8800 regulation in the Netherlands
To download the newsletter please visit: https://venticool.eu/venticool-publications/newsletters/
After careful consideration by the Steering Committee and from input by authors, ASHRAE and AIVC have decided to postpone the conference, which was initially scheduled for September 14-16, 2020 in Athens, Greece. The conference “IAQ 2020: Indoor Environmental Quality Performance … Continue reading
The EBC Annex 80 held its third Expert Meeting on November 5th and 6th which also indicates half-time. Over 50 participants from 15 countries took part in three online sessions scheduled to take on the large time lag between the Americas, … Continue reading
From 2021, a new energy performance of buildings regulation, the so-called NTA8800, comes into force in the Netherlands. 4 indicators are used: BENG1 represents the energy demand, BENG2 the fossil primary energy consumption, BENG3 the fraction of renewable energy production … Continue reading
There has been an overall lack of ventilative cooling integration in existing European technical documents regarding “system design” and “performance” aspects, and therefore work relevant to ventilative cooling applications started up in CEN/TC 156 and ISO/TC 205 in various working … Continue reading
Venticool with support from the IEA EBC Annex 80 Resilient Cooling of Buildings (https://annex80.iea-ebc.org/), the IEA-EBC Annex 62 Ventilative Cooling (https://venticool.eu/annex-62-home/) and in cooperation with The Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (https://www.aivc.org/) organized the webinar “Resilient Ventilative Cooling in practice” held on December 9th. The webinar presented solutions of ventilative cooling in practice in residential and non-residential buildings. 194 people from 36 countries attended the webinar.
Presentations and Speakers:
- Introduction to resilient ventilative cooling and venticool, Hilde Breesch – KU Leuven, Belgium
- Ventilative cooling components: An overview, Peter Holzer – Operating Agent EBC Annex 80, Institute of Building Research & Innovation, Austria
- Application of louvres to support ventilative cooling, Ivan Pollet – Renson, Belgium
- Examples of air flow enhancing and natural cooling components, Nick Hopper – Monodraught, United Kingdom
- Controlled windows for ventilative cooling, Peter Foldbjerg – Velux, Denmark
- Ventilative cooling integrated design, Jannick Roth – WindowMaster, Denmark
The full collection of past events’ recordings and slides can be found at: https://venticool.eu/venticool-events/webinars/
The current development in building energy efficiency towards nZEB buildings represents a number of new challenges to design and construction. One of these major challenges is the increased need for cooling in these highly insulated and airtight buildings, which is not only present in the summer period but also in the shoulder seasons and in offices even in midwinter. Resilient ventilative cooling can be an energy efficient solution to address this cooling challenge in buildings.
This webinar will present solutions of ventilative cooling in practice in residential and non-residential buildings. Peter Holzer, operating agent of IEA EBC Annex 80 Resilient Cooling of Buildings, will give an overview, and speakers from industry will demonstrate interesting ventilative cooling components.
This webinar is organised by INIVE EEIG (www.inive.org) with the support of the IEA EBC Annex 80 Resilient Cooling of Buildings (https://annex80.iea-ebc.org/), the IEA-EBC Annex 62 Ventilative Cooling (https://venticool.eu/annex-62-home/) and the venticool platform (www.venticool.eu), and in cooperation with the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (www.aivc.org).
Presentations and Speakers:
- Introduction to resilient ventilative cooling and venticool, Hilde Breesch – KU Leuven, Belgium
- Ventilative cooling components: An overview, Peter Holzer – Operating Agent EBC Annex 80, Institute of Building Research & Innovation, Austria
- Application of louvres to support ventilative cooling, Ivan Pollet – Renson, Belgium
- Examples of air flow enhancing and natural cooling components, Nick Hopper – Monodraught, United Kingdom
- Controlled windows for ventilative cooling, Peter Foldbjerg – Velux, Denmark
- Ventilative cooling integrated design, Jannick Roth – WindowMaster, Denmark
Participation to the webinar is FREE but requires you to REGISTER for the event.
For further information please download the flyer.
The Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (https://www.aivc.org/) with support from ASHRAE and REHVA organized the webinar “COVID-19 Ventilation related guidance by ASHRAE and REHVA” held on Friday November 20th, 2020 at 16:00-17:15 (CET). The webinar presented the guidelines by REHVA and ASHRAE and also had a closer look to the similarities and differences in both guidelines.
Presentations and Speakers:
- Introduction, Arnold Janssens – chair of AIVC WG COVID-19
- REHVA guidance regarding ventilation, Jarek Kurnitski – chair of REHVA COVID-19 task force
- ASHRAE guidance regarding ventilation, William P. Bahnfleth – chair of ASHRAE’s Epidemic task force
- Similarities and differences between REHVA’s & ASHRAE’s guidance, Valérie Leprince – member AIVC COVID-19 working group & ASHRAE’s Epidemic task force
The recordings and the slides are now available online at: https://www.aivc.org/event/20-november-2020-webinar-covid-19-ventilation-related-guidance-ashrae-and-rehva
Progressing the scientific basis of indoor environmental quality is essential to understand which aspects can be better optimised to substantially reduce energy use in buildings. In recent years, IEA Energy in Buildings and Communities (EBC) international research projects have been … Continue reading