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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 →
The venticool website has now been updated to include also information from IEA EBC annex 80 resilient cooling of buildings. This is part of a collaboration agreement between INIVE, AIVC, venticool & IEA EBC annex 80. Stay tuned to be … Continue reading →
The 16th issue of the venticool newsletter is now available! Specific contents include: Foreword Postponement of 41st AIVC ‐ ASHRAE IAQ ‐ 9th TightVent & 7th venticool joint conference in Athens, Greece IEA EBC Annex 80 Resilient Cooling for Buildings – … Continue reading →
The EBC Annex 80 held its second Expert Meeting on April 20th and 21st as its first fully web-based meeting. Over 50 participants from 15 countries took part in three online sessions schedule to take on the large time lag … Continue reading →
The Air Infiltration & Ventilation Centre has just released AIVC Literature List 34 “Ventilative Cooling”. The document is split into three main chapters including: papers & slides presented at AIVC & venticool annual conferences and publications produced during the operation of IEA-EBC … Continue reading →
