This publication, released by the Zero Carbon Hub, provides a summary of recent research and evidence on some of the more common impacts and consequences of overheating in residential buildings. It focusses primarily on the health and wellbeing of people … 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 →
The Indoor Environmental Quality Global alliance organised its first sessions at the June 2015 ASHRAE Annual conference. The sessions present a holistic approach to indoor environmental quality and give information on different societies’ activities to improve the indoor environment. To … 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 international conference on “EPBD Review: Elements for better compliance and quality of works” will be held in Brussels on Friday 4 September 2015. One specific objective is to exchange about the public consultation process for the evaluation and review of 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 →
