Wednesday 25 April 2018, 10:30 AM-12:30 PM (Brussels time, CET) Ventilative cooling reduces overheating, improves summer comfort and decreases cooling loads. It is therefore one of the most efficient ways to improve summer comfort. Conditions on site, thermal inertia, solar … Continue reading
The abstract submission deadline for the 39th AIVC – 5th venticool –7th TightVent joint conference “Smart ventilation for buildings” to be held on 18 and 19 September 2018 in Antibes Juan-Les-Pins, France, is now closed. In case of unforeseen problems with abstracts submission, please contact the conference secretariat at: secretariat@aivc2018conference.org) … Continue reading
A proposal for the formation of a new IEA EBC Annex on the topic of Resilient Cooling was presented to the Executive Committee (ExCo) of the International Energy Agency’s Energy in Buildings and Communities programme (IEA EBC) in November 2018. … Continue reading
The abstract submission deadline for the 39th AIVC – 5th venticool –7th TightVent joint conference “Smart ventilation for buildings” to be held on 18 and 19 September 2018 in Antibes Juan-Les-Pins, France, has been extended to 20 March, 2018. Most of the topical sessions are now known. The provisional … Continue reading
The FREEVENT project and venticool are organising the webinar: “Ventilative cooling and summer comfort: Freevent project in France” to be held on Wednesday 25 April at 10:30 AM (CET). The programme includes 3 presentations of 20 minutes as follows: On site … Continue reading
Tuesday 6 March 2018, 15:00-16:30 (Brussels time, CET) AIVC defines smart ventilation as a process to continually adjust the ventilation system of a building in order to provide the desired Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) benefits while minimizing energy consumption, utility bills … Continue reading
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