More than 200 participants attended the joint 39^th AIVC – 7^th TightVent – 5^th venticool conference held in Juan-Les-Pins, France on September 18-19, 2018. The programme consisted of 3 parallel sessions with contributions from 27 countries and international organisations. Around 150 presentations were given covering the main conference topics namely: Smart Ventilation, Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and Health relationships; Ventilation and (building) Airtightness; Ventilative cooling – Resilient cooling.

It has also been a major discussion place for on-going or recently launched projects and initiatives such as the Indoor Environmental Quality – Global Alliance (http://ieq-ga.net/), the IEA EBC annex 80 “Resilient Cooling” (http://annex80.iea-ebc.org/) and the IEA EBC annex 78 “Supplementing Ventilation with Gas-phase Air Cleaning, Implementation and Energy Implications”( http://annex78.iea-ebc.org/).

The “Ventilative Cooling-Resilient Cooling” track at the AIVC 2018 conference consisted of 14 presentations organised in 3 sessions:

1. Ventilative cooling
2. Improving the efficiency of ventilative cooling
3. IEA EBC Annex 80 on Resilient Cooling (topical session)

The article available here provides a summary of the main trends and conclusions addressed during the presentations and discussions on the topic of ventilative & resilient cooling.