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Annex 62 “Ventilative Cooling” of the IEA Technology Collaboration Programme: Energy in Buildings and Communities, just released three new publications!

The annual report of 2017 of the International Energy Agency’s Energy in Buildings and Communities (IEA-EBC) Programme has just been released. This report presents an overview of progress made by the EBC Programme, including summaries of new, ongoing and recently completed projects. It is consisting of three parts: the Chair's Statement, Project progress reports and practical background information.

The recordings and the slides of our recent webinar:“Ventilative cooling and summer comfort: Freevent project in France” held on the 25th of April, 2018 and jointly organised by the FREEVENT project and venticool in cooperation with the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre, are now available online at: http://aivc.org/resource/ventilative-cooling-and-summer-comfort-freeven….

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The presentations of the AIVC workshops held on 19-20 March 2018 in Wellington (NZ) "Towards higher-performing buildings: The role of airtightness and ventilation" and on 23 March 2018 in Sydney (AU) "Ventilation for Indoor Air Quality and Cooling" are now available for download.

Please click on the relevant links below to access the event's presentations and programme (in pdf format) as well as further information on the events:

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

Contents include:

The recordings and the slides of our latest webinar "IAQ sensors for smart ventilation of buildings" held on 6 March, 2018 are now available online at:

http://aivc.org/event/6-march-2018-webinar-iaq-sensors-smart-ventilation-buildings

In March 2017, AIVC identified smart ventilation for buildings as a new and important topic to be addressed. Several actions were defined by AIVC Board about this topic in order to exchange and disseminate information on this topic. A working group of AIVC experts from several countries was created. One of its tasks was to agree on a definition of smart ventilation.

We are now pleased to announce the release of our  Ventilation Information Paper no 38: What is smart ventilation? aiming to present and illustrate this definition of “smart ventilation”.

The AIVC is very pleased to welcome China as new participating country! China will be represented in the AIVC board by Guoqiang Zhang, Dean of Institute of Sustainable Urbanization and Construction Innovation, Hunan University and Weijun Chen from Hunan Shinilion Energy Saving Sci. and Tech. Corp. Ltd.

The AIVC at present counts 14 countries composing the AIVC Board demonstrating the growing interest on air infiltration and ventilation issues in new and renovated buildings.

The abstract submission deadline for the 39th AIVC - 7th TightVent - 5th venticool 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 list of topical sessions is as follows:

The AIVC is organising the webinar: "IAQ sensors for smart ventilation of buildings" to be held on Tuesday 6 March 2018, 15:00-16:30 (Brussels time, CET).

The objective of this AIVC webinar is:

• to show an overview of the available low cost sensors for indoor air measurements (particulates, VOCs, CO2);
• to present results of two recent laboratory and on site evaluations of some sensors;
• to assess their applicability to ventilation system control.

Presentations and speakers: