On the 14th of October 2016 the Austrian Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology (Isabella Zwerger MSc) and the Institute of Building Research and Innovation (DI Dr. Peter Holzer) held a symposium on Ventilative Cooling in Vienna. Aside from the … Continue reading →
The recordings and the presentations of the QUALICHeCK webinars “Ventilative cooling potential and compliance — Status and perspectives in Spain and Germany” & “Status on the ground: Prevention of summer overheating — methods and results” are now available online at … Continue reading →
The 38th AIVC conference “Ventilating healthy low-energy buildings” will be held on 13 and 14 September 2017 in Nottingham (UK). It will also be the 4th venticool conference and the 6th TightVent conference. Conference Scope The need to reduce the energy … Continue reading →
This webinar will focus on summer thermal comfort by discussing available national requirements, related assessment methods as well as the results from field studies. Overheating prevention is addressed by EPBD Annex I which states that the energy performance of a … 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, under summer or mid-season conditions. This webinar is part of a broader series focusing on … Continue reading →
The European Solar Energy Organisation (ES-SO) released a white paper focusing on the overheating risk in low energy buildings in order to strengthen the awareness of member states of a growing problem which is not sufficiently addressed in the current … Continue reading →
The building glass façade and window industry represented by European Aluminium, EuroWindoor, ES-SO and Glass for Europe came together to call for a modernised EPBD to unleash the energy savings potential of high performing windows. The four associations call for a … Continue reading →
“Ventilative cooling for buildings may lead to cooling energy savings and improvements in thermal comfort, especially in seasonally temperate and warm climates. But, codes and regulations need to better quantify its benefits”, says professor Per Heiselberg, operating agent of IEA … Continue reading →
IEA EBC Annex 62 released an Application Database containing buildings which make use of Ventilative Cooling from several countries. Each datasheet holds basic building specifications as well as information about Ventilative Cooling Site Design Elements and Ventilative Cooling Architectural Design … Continue reading →
The 6th Annex 62 Expert Meeting will be held from Wednesday, October 12 to Thursday, October 13, 2016 at the Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology, in Vienna, Austria. The participants will present and discuss the Annex’s deliverables and … Continue reading →
