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 by March 27! venticool– AIVC – TightVent 2023 joint Conference
The abstract submission deadline for the AIVC – TightVent – venticool 2023 Conference: “Ventilation, IEQ and health in sustainable buildings” to be held during 4-5 October 2023 in Copenhagen, Denmark has been extended! Authors can now submit their abstracts by March … Continue reading →
Increased Cooling Degree Days and Decreased Heating Degree Days from 1979-2022
A recent analysis by Eurostat, released on February 27,2023, revealed that the need to heat a given building in the EU from 1979 to 2022 has decreased by almost a fifth. More specifically, the heating degree days (HDD) went down from … Continue reading →
Energy Efficiency and Indoor Climate in Buildings is out! Edition of March 2023
The March 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 →
Join us for the venticool 2023 partners’ meeting!
venticool is organizing an online meeting to be held on Monday March 20, 2023 [09:00-11:00 CET] to discuss the major outcomes and future challenges of venticool, the platform for resilient ventilative cooling, launched in 2012. The aim of the meeting … Continue reading →
Selected papers from the AIVC – TightVent- venticool 2022 Conference published at the REHVA Journal 01/2023 Issue!
The February 2023 edition of the REHVA Journal has been released, including a selection of articles presented at the 42nd AIVC conference – 10th TightVent – 8th venticool conference: “Ventilation Challenges in a Changing World” held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands … Continue reading →
Technological and financial tools to decarbonise the building sector and mitigate overheating in our cities – Insights from Professor Mat Santamouris and the EMF-ECBC
In the framework of The Trento EEMI Bauhaus Week, the European Mortgage Federation – European Covered Bond Council (EMF-ECBC) released a video-”call to action” (for distribution to 2000 banks and 5000 major companies) about the decarbonisation of buildings and the … Continue reading →
Submit your Abstracts & Topical Session proposals by January 23! venticool – AIVC – TightVent 2023 joint Conference
The abstract & topical session submission deadlines for the AIVC -TightVent – venticool 2023 Conference: “Ventilation, IEQ and health in sustainable buildings” to be held during 4-5 October 2023 in Copenhagen, Denmark have been extended! Authors interested in the peer review of … Continue reading →
venticool newsletter is out! Edition of December 2022 available
The 21st issue of the venticool newsletter is now available! Specific contents include: Foreword Feedback from the 42nd AIVC‐ 10th TightVent & 8th venticool Conference: Summary of the “Resilient Ventilative Cooling” track 4‐5 October 2023 – 43rd AIVC – 11th TightVent‐ … Continue reading →
Europe’s 2022 summer heatwaves
On November 24th, 2022 The Guardian published an article entitled “Over 20,000 died in western Europe’s summer heatwaves”. According to the article, during the summer, heatwaves temperatures exceeded 40ºC in London, areas in south-west France reached 42ºC while Seville and Córdoba in Spain set records of … Continue reading →
Recordings & Slides available! AIVC & EBC Annex 87 Webinar on PECS
The recordings and the slides of the AIVC & EBC Annex 87 Webinar: “Energy and Indoor Environmental Quality Performance of Personalised Environmental Control Systems (PECS)” are now available online here. The full collection of past events’ recordings and slides can … Continue reading →