The March 2020 issue of the AIVC newsletter has just been released. This issue is dedicated to sharing information on our past and future events. Specific contents include:

AIRBASE (https://www.aivc.org/resources/airbase) is the Bibliographic Database of the AIVC. AIRBASE has grown and evolved over many years - 1979 to present day- and now includes over 22000 references and 16000 documents available online. Entries are based on articles and reports published in journals, internal publications and research reports, produced both by university departments and by building research institutions throughout the world.

We have just released a new collection of papers linked to ventilative cooling and published during the period of 2012 to 2019! The collection includes 212 papers presented at AIVC & venticool annual conferences and publications produced by the IEA-EBC annex 62 ‘ventilative cooling’. The collection is accessible at: https://www.aivc.org/resources/collection-publications/ventilative-cooling

ASHRAE has developed proactive guidance to help address coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) concerns with respect to the operation and maintenance of heating, ventilating and air-conditioning systems.  More information can be found on: https://www.ashrae.org/about/news/2020/ashrae-resources-available-to-address-covid-19-concerns

We are pleased to announce that the proceedings & PowerPoint presentations of the 2019 AIVC- TightVent-venticool joint Conference “From energy crisis to sustainable indoor climate – 40 years of AIVC” held on 15-16 October 2019 in Ghent, Belgium are now available to download for FREE on AIRBASE.

In May 2020, the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (AIVC) together with the Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet) and SINTEF Community organized a series of 3 webinars under the theme of "Urban Home Ventilation" to provide insights from national and international experiences in the field. The recordings and the slides of these webinars are available online. Please click on the links below to view the recordings and download the slides. 

The recordings and the slides of our recent webinars: “Durability of building airtightness: Assessment through field measurements” held on January 30^th 2020 &  “Durability of building airtightness: Assessment through laboratory testing” held on Friday 21

The recordings and the slides of our recent webinar: “Durability of building airtightness: Assessment through field measurements” held on January 30^th 2020 and organised with the support of TightVent Europe and the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre, are now available online here. 

Venticool, EBC Annex 62 "Ventilative Cooling", and the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre are organizing the webinar “Ventilative Cooling – design and examples” to be held on Thursday 26th March 2020 at 15:00-16:30 (CET). This webinar will present the main outcomes of IEA EBC Annex 62 on ventilative cooling design as well as give examples of applications and lessons learned.

Presentations & Speakers:

TightVent Europe and AIVC are organizing the webinar “Durability of airtightness- assessment through laboratory tests” to be held on Friday 21^st February 2020 at 10:30-11:30 (CET). This is the second webinar organized on this topic (Information on the first webinar of this series can be found here).