The transition to climate neutrality has a large impact on the job of building and HVAC designers, manufacturers, installers, investors, etc. Renovating our building stock to make it more energy efficient is a huge task. Both research and practice prove that users have an important impact on this performance.

Ventilation represents a very high part of the building’s energy load. Increased envelope protection combined with the significant increase of the ambient temperature, turn ventilation into one of the major energy consuming uses requiring the development and use of innovative and efficient new technologies to minimise the ventilation energy load.

Personal Environmental Control System (PECS) with the functions of heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting and acoustic has advantages of controlling the localized environment at occupant’s workstation by their preference instead of conditioning an entire room.

Indoor Environments: Global Research to Action is a video show & podcast that explores how research can be translated to practice on a variety of topics related to our built indoor environments.

Our bodies need good rest and sleep as part of regular recuperation to enable us to perform our normal activities in life.  Sleep is an integral part of human life and the importance and significance of good bedroom IAQ, indoor air pollution, ventilation as well as bedroom thermal environment during sleep cannot be emphasized more.

Significant discrepancies have been observed among European countries, regarding the building and ductwork airtightness trends, attributed to differences between national policies, building practices and climate conditions.

Significant discrepancies have been observed among European countries, regarding the building and ductwork airtightness trends, attributed to differences between national policies, building practices and climate conditions.

NILIM and BRI of Japan, together with the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (AIVC) organised a workshop entitled “Towards high quality, low-carbon ventilation in airtight buildings" held on 18-19 May 2023 in Tokyo, Japan.