This report, released by the Zero Carbon Hub, presents the ‘big picture’ on overheating, with a particular focus on reflecting the housing sector’s concerns and level of preparedness to tackle overheating. In particular, the report aims to provide answers to … Continue reading →
Around 160 participants attended the joint 36th AIVC – 5th TightVent – 3rd venticool conference held in Madrid, Spain September 23-24, 2015. The programme consisted of 3 parallel sessions with contributions from 27 countries and international organisations. Over 120 presentations … Continue reading →
The venticool platform paper: “Overview of provisions for ventilative cooling within 8 European building energy performance regulations” is now available online. This study aimed to focus on regulatory measures taken or missing regarding ventilative cooling in several countries, which could … Continue reading →
This joint conference will provide a unique opportunity for dialog among attendees to facilitate understanding of current indoor air quality policies, standards and best practices with themes such as regulatory vs. voluntary compliance for achieving Indoor Air Quality (IAQ), the … Continue reading →
The sixth issue of the venticool newsletter is now available for download! Contents include: Foreword IEA EBC Annex 62 – Ventilative Cooling – 3rd Expert Meeting, Changsha, China, April 15-18, 2015 IEA EBC Annex 62, Ventilative Cooling, State-of-the-Art Review completed Recently completed … Continue reading →
The state-of-the-art (SOTAR) report of ECB Annex 62 Ventilative Cooling is completed; it summarises the work of the initial working phase of the Annex and is structured in five chapters: Potentials and limitations, reviews existing methods suitable to estimate the … Continue reading →
17 delegates from 9 countries attended the expert meeting. The host was Hunan University (Prof. Guoqiang Zhang) who in conjunction with the expert meeting also organized the “International symposium of Sustainable City and Built Environment” with about 250 attendees and … Continue reading →
The research program investigated the potential energy savings to be gained by retrofitting non-domestic buildings in California with natural ventilation for cooling. The simplest and most cost effective retrofit is to open windows on the façade and turn off any … Continue reading →
Within the first phase IEA EBC Annex 62, Ventilative Cooling, running from 2014 – 2017, chances and challenges of Ventilative Cooling have been investigated. Main challenges have been identified in the aspects of security, noise and wind protection, dust and … Continue reading →
This report deals with Indoor Air Quality (IAQ), thermal comfort and daylight requirements in Belgium (Brussels Region), Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden and the UK (England and Wales) and focuses on the respective building codes for new and existing … Continue reading →
