Since the start of the preparation phase began in January 2025, EBC Annex 97 / Cities TCP Task 5 “Sustainable Cooling in Cities” has steadily gained momentum. A key event during this period was the two-day workshop held in Vienna, … Continue reading →
The conference “IEQ 2025: Rising to new challenges: Connecting IEQ to a sustainable future”, organized by ASHRAE and AIVC, will be held in Montreal, Canada on 24-26 September 2025. The conference will also be the 13th TightVent and 11th venticool conference. This … Continue reading →
We’re happy to announce that the recordings of the AIVC-venticool webinar, “Improving thermal resilience of buildings to overheating: Lessons learned”, held on May 5, 2025, are now available on our website! Featured Presentations: ReCOver++ project: wrap up (Hilde Breesch, KU … Continue reading →
Climate change is leading to increasingly frequent and severe heatwaves, which elevate the risk of human thermal stress in indoor environments. These conditions can make buildings uninhabitable during extreme events and long after they have passed. Therefore, it is crucial … Continue reading →
On March 27th, 2025, representatives from the building cooling and ventilation industry along with architects and consultants convened for the 11th meeting of the Advisory Board of Practitioners (ABoP). Since early 2024, the board has been led by venticool, following its … Continue reading →
A recent study by Linda Toledo et al. investigated overheating in four low-energy homes in England–three newly built and one retrofitted. Over an 11-month period, the researchers conducted environmental monitoring and gathered occupant feedback to identify the causes of overheating. … Continue reading →
A new study by Douaa Al-Assaad et al. evaluates resilient passive cooling strategies in buildings during heat waves across different climates. Using simulations, the research evaluates the performance of passive cooling strategies such as solar shading, cool envelope materials, advanced … Continue reading →
The February 2025 edition of the REHVA Journal has been released, featuring the theme “IEQ at 44th AIVC conference, Model IEQ regulation to fulfil the EPBD 2024″! The issue includes, among other articles, a selection of papers presented at the 44th … Continue reading →
We are happy to announce the release of the free/open-source pythermalcomfort version 3.0, a comprehensive toolkit for calculating thermal comfort indices, heat/cold stress metrics, and thermophysiological responses in Python. Key Updates in pythermalcomfort v3.0: Multi-node models:Pythermalcomfort now includes JOS3 a … Continue reading →
The 25th issue of the venticool newsletter is now available! Specific contents include: Foreword 24 – 26 September 2025, AIVC – ASHRAE IEQ –venticool– TightVent joint conference, Montreal, Canada Feedback from the AIVC-TightVent‐ venticool Conference: Summary of the resilient ventilative cooling … Continue reading →
