Ventilative cooling–i.e., the use of natural or mechanical ventilation strategies to cool indoor spaces –can be very effective to reduce the cooling energy demand in buildings in summer or mid-season conditions. This webinar is part of a broader series focusing … Continue reading →
Ventilative cooling–i.e., the use of natural or mechanical ventilation strategies to cool indoor spaces –can be very effective to reduce the cooling energy demand in buildings in summer or mid-season conditions. The principal objective of this webinar series is to … Continue reading →
The 12th REHVA World Congress CLIMA 2016 will be a central event in 2016 for presentation of recent international research activities and their research achievement. Many researchers from IEA and EU projects will at special sessions present their latest research results … Continue reading →
The Annex 62 report: “Ventilative Cooling. State-of-The-Art Review” is now available. The report summarises the work of the initial working phase of IEA ECB Annex 62 Ventilative Cooling and is based on the findings in the participating countries. The report is an … 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 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 →
