Ventilative cooling is the use of natural or mechanical ventilation strategies to cool indoor spaces. It can significantly reduce the cooling energy demand in summer or mid-season conditions. Therefore, ventilative cooling is increasingly common in NZEBs.

This BUILD UP Web Seminar addressed the following:

• Challenges for ventilative cooling in the context of NZEB – the venticool platform;
• Potential energy savings and the new IEA EBC Annex 62 on ventilative cooling; and
• Case studies – demonstrated high level summer comfort in real buildings.

AGENDA

• Welcome | Peter Wouters, INIVE eeig on behalf of BUILD UP
• Ventilative cooling – a hot topic! | Peter Wouters, INIVE eeig
• IEA EBC Annex 62 Ventilative Cooling | Per Heiselberg, Aalborg University
• Examples of naturally cooled buildings | Flourentzos Flourentzou, ESTIA Innovation park EPFL
• Questions and Answers