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AIVC has joined the Covenant of Mayors as an Associated Partner.

Heralded as the “world’s biggest urban climate and energy initiative” by Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete, the Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy brings together thousands of local and regional authorities voluntarily committed to implementing EU climate and energy objectives on their territory. New signatories now pledge to reduce CO2 emissions by at least 40% by 2030 and to adopt an integrated approach to tackling mitigation and adaptation to climate change.

The September issue of the AIVC newsletter has just been released.

Contents include:

During the joint CLIMA 2016 and the 12th REHVA Conference held in Aalborg on May 22-25 2016, a specific session dealing with ventilation and air infiltration was organised by the AIVC.

The tenth issue of the TightVent newsletter (June, 2016) is now available.

Contents include:

The eighth issue of the venticool newsletter (June, 2016) is now available.

Contents include:

During the joint CLIMA 2016 and the 12th REHVA Conference held in Aalborg on May 22-25 2016, a specific session dealing with ventilation and air infiltration was organised by the AIVC. The title of the workshop was: “2020 Agenda for Ventilation and Air Infiltration: knowledge gaps, research priorities and the need for innovation”, aiming to look into the future needs concerning ventilation and air infiltration, including comfort and health and considering all building types and climates.

The presentations of the workshop are now available for download:

The International Energy Agency's Energy in Buildings and Communities (IEA-EBC) Programme newsletter of June 2016 (Issue 63) has been released. 

Featured articles include:

• Norway demonstrates zero emission buildings.
• Computational tools for buildings and communities.
• Financing deep energy retrofit projects.
• Reliability of energy efficient building retrofitting.
• Making a case for building energy epidemiology.
• EBC international projects.

A special issue of the International Journal of Ventilation was released in March, 2016 with selected extended papers from the 35th AIVC Conference: “Ventilation and Airtightness in Transforming the Building Stock to High Performance”.

The list of articles includes:

With the aim to maximise its impact on the dissemination of information on research and development in the fields of ventilation and air infiltration, the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (AIVC) continues to “spread the word”, through the organisation of conferences or thematic workshops, the production of technical notes, the cooperation with well-established organisations, the convergence with other information channels and so on.

The new TN68 Residential Ventilation and Health is now available.

This Technical Note summarises studies that prioritise pollutants in the indoor environment and presents a summary of pollutants driving the health risks indoors and their sources. It also describes methods to reduce exposures of contaminants using different control strategies with a special emphasis on the role of ventilation.