IEA EBC approves extension for AIVC (2017-2021)

On June 9, the executive committee of the IEA Technical Collaboration Programme Buildings and Communities (EBC TCP), previously called the implementing agreement on buildings and Communities, approved a new extension period for the AIVC for the period 2017 till 2021, i.e. a 5 years extension.

During this new period, no radical changes in the overall operation of the AIVC is foreseen but, of course, there will be an evolution in the priorities for the AIVC.

8 specific topics of interest have been identified, i.e.:

Ventilation and airtightness in relation to:

QUALICHeCK Workshop on summer comfort

The 2nd QUALICHeCK Workshop will be held in Athens, Greece, on 9-10 March 2016, and will focus on sustainable summer comfort technologies. Within the context of compliance and quality, topics to be covered include solar control, developments in cooling technologies and potential for advanced cooling, status on ventilative cooling, cool roofs and more. In addition, summer comfort will be examined from the perspectives of energy, climate change and energy poverty.



 

New AIVC website on-line!

We are pleased to present you the new AIVC website. Since 2001, the AIVC website had the same look and feel and we thought it was time for a fundamental change. We hope that this new website will please you.

In addition to the new look and feel, some of the major changes are:

AIVC Board Visits NRC’s Building Science Facilities in Ottawa

The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) Construction Research Centre organized a private facility tour in Ottawa for ten AIVC board members on September 27, 2025, following the 45th AIVC - ASHRAE IEQ joint conference in Montreal. Visiting board members from Belgium, France, Ireland, Japan, South Korea, Spain, and the United States were welcomed by NRC hosts, including two AIVC board members.

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