The International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ) is delighted to announce the opening of the Call for Abstracts and Workshop Proposals for next summer’s twin conferences Healthy Buildings 2021, to be held in two locations, Europe and America, in June and August respectively, with a shared International Summer School.

This new annex was approved in June 2020. The goal of Annex 86 is to propose an integrated rating method for the performance assessment and optimization of energy efficient strategies of managing the indoor air quality (IAQ) in new and existing residential buildings. This integrated performance assessment will accelerate the development of better and more energy efficient IAQ management strategies to address rapidly changing expectations of the home environment due to challenges such as peak oil, climate change or pandemics.

The September 2020 issue of the AIVC newsletter has just been released. This edition includes information on upcoming and past events, our involvement and collaboration with the recently approved IEA-EBC annex 86 and a focus article on the importance of ventilation in the COVID-19 context. Specific contents include:

On June 26th, the Executive Committee of the IEA Energy in Buildings Technology Collaboration Platform (www.iea-ebc.org) approved the proposed collaboration project “Energy Efficient Smart IAQ Management for residential buildings" as IEA EBC annex 86. This annex will propose an integrated rating method for the performance assessment and optimization of energy efficient strategies of managing the indoor air quality (IAQ) in new and existing residential buildings.