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 →
The AIVC (Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre) and the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Low Carbon Living warmly invite you to participate in a free, one-day workshop Ventilation for Indoor Air Quality and Cooling in Sydney on Friday 23 March, … Continue reading →
The eleventh issue of the venticool newsletter (December, 2017) is now available for download. This issue includes two articles providing feedback on the ventilative cooling workshop in Brussels followed by the final IEA-EBC Annex 62 expert meeting in Gent in October, 2017. Further on, Professor … Continue reading →
The joint 38th AIVC, 6th TightVent and 4th venticool Conference on ‘Ventilating Healthy Low-energy Buildings’ was held in Nottingham, UK, 13-14 September 2017. The programme consisted of plenary sessions and 3 parallel tracks, one devoted to Ventilative Cooling in four sessions … Continue reading →
The 5th venticool conference will be held on 18 and 19 September 2018 in Juan-les-Pins, France together with the 39th AIVC conference and the 7th TightVent conference. The title of the conference is “Smart ventilation for buildings”. Conference Scope Energy and climate goals have … Continue reading →
62 persons from 15 countries attended the international workshop on “ventilative cooling in buildings: now & in the future” held in Brussels, Belgium on 23 October 2017. This workshop aimed at discussing the implementation of ventilative cooling as well as … Continue reading →
16 delegates from 10 countries attended the 8th expert meeting. The host was KU Leuven, Faculty of Engineering Technology, Technology Campus Ghent, Associate Professor Hilde Breesch. This was the final meeting of the project and the main focus was to … Continue reading →
New Work Items (NWl’s) relevant to ventilative cooling applications have been approved by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) (see also venticool newsletter June 2017 edition). The scope of this work is to … Continue reading →
“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 and ductwork airtightness … Continue reading →
The 5th venticool conference will be held on 18 and 19 September 2018 in Juan-les-Pins, France together with the 39th AIVC conference and the 7th TightVent conference. More information will follow soon so stay tuned.
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