“Energy Efficiency and Indoor Climate in Buildings” has just been released. This monthly online newspaper contains relevant information on the international platform on ventilative cooling (venticool) & IEA EBC annex 62, the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (AIVC), the building … Continue reading →
The recordings and the slides of our recent webinars: “Surventilation & confort d’été” and “Ventilative cooling and summer comfort: Freevent project in France” held on the 24th and 25th of April, 2018 and jointly organised by the FREEVENT project and venticool in cooperation with the … Continue reading →
The market uptake of BIM (Building Information Modelling) is rapidly growing in nearly all European countries and one can assume that this trend will continue and even accelerate in the coming years. In practice, there was until recently in most … Continue reading →
Wednesday 25 April 2018, 10:30 AM-12:30 PM (Brussels time, CET) Ventilative cooling reduces overheating, improves summer comfort and decreases cooling loads. It is therefore one of the most efficient ways to improve summer comfort. Conditions on site, thermal inertia, solar … Continue reading →
The abstract submission deadline for the 39th AIVC – 5th venticool –7th TightVent joint conference “Smart ventilation for buildings” to be held on 18 and 19 September 2018 in Antibes Juan-Les-Pins, France, is now closed. In case of unforeseen problems with abstracts submission, please contact the conference secretariat at: secretariat@aivc2018conference.org) … Continue reading →
A proposal for the formation of a new IEA EBC Annex on the topic of Resilient Cooling was presented to the Executive Committee (ExCo) of the International Energy Agency’s Energy in Buildings and Communities programme (IEA EBC) in November 2018. … Continue reading →
The abstract submission deadline for the 39th AIVC – 5th venticool –7th TightVent joint conference “Smart ventilation for buildings” to be held on 18 and 19 September 2018 in Antibes Juan-Les-Pins, France, has been extended to 20 March, 2018. Most of the topical sessions are now known. The provisional … Continue reading →
The FREEVENT project and venticool are organising the webinar: “Ventilative cooling and summer comfort: Freevent project in France” to be held on Wednesday 25 April at 10:30 AM (CET). The programme includes 3 presentations of 20 minutes as follows: On site … Continue reading →
Tuesday 6 March 2018, 15:00-16:30 (Brussels time, CET) AIVC defines smart ventilation as a process to continually adjust the ventilation system of a building in order to provide the desired Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) benefits while minimizing energy consumption, utility bills … Continue reading →
New Zealand homes and apartments have become more and more airtight and have reached a level of airtightness that requires dedicated ventilation. Despite the fact that there is no airtightness requirement in the New Zealand Building Code, new homes regularly … Continue reading →
