Mark your calendars for the upcoming AIVC 2020 International Workshop "Urban Home Ventilation"  to be held on May 6^th, 2020  in Oslo, Norway! The workshop will start at 08:30 AM and finish at 04:00PM. It will take place at OsloMet (Pilestredet 46, Oslo, Norway). The main focus will be on  ventilation requirements, trends, and quality, moisture and comfort control and kitchen ventilation. Information on registration, programme, speakers etc. will follow soon, so stay tuned.

The conference "IAQ 2020: Indoor Environmental Quality Performance Approaches Transitioning from IAQ to IEQ",  organized by ASHRAE and AIVC will be held on September 14-16, 2020 in Athens, Greece. The conference will also be the 9^th TightVent and 7^th venticool conference.

Conference topics

We hope you enjoyed attending 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. We are happy to announce that we have selected and recorded a few interesting presentations focusing on the topic of airtightness.

The list of available presentations follows together with a link to the recordings.

The 15^th issue of the venticool newsletter is now available! Specific contents include:

The abstract submission deadline for the 41^st AIVC – ASHRAE - IAQ joint Conference “IAQ 2020: Indoor Environmental Quality Performance Approaches Transitioning from IAQ to IEQ” to be held from the 14^th to the 16^th of September 2020 in Athens, Greece together with the 9^th TightVent and the 7^th venticool conferences, has been extended to 23 December, 2019.

Conference topics include:

The AIVC – TightVent - venticool 2019 joint Conference “From Energy crisis to sustainable indoor climate – 40 years of AIVC", co-organized by Ghent University and the International Network on Ventilation and Energy Performance (INIVE) on behalf of the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (AIVC), the Building and Ductwork Airtightness Platform (TightVent Europe), and the international

TightVent Europe and AIVC are organizing the webinar “Durability of building airtightness: Assessment through field measurements” to be held on Thursday 30 January 2020 at 14:30-15:30 (CET). The objective of this webinar is to share information on the durability of building airtightness evaluated through field measurements. Information provided will help the participants understand how building airtightness changes over time and improve the protocol for future field measurement campaigns.

Presentations & Speakers

The AIVC – TightVent - venticool 2019 joint Conference “From Energy crisis to sustainable indoor climate – 40 years of AIVC", co-organized by Ghent University and the International Network on Ventilation and Energy Performance (INIVE) on behalf of the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (AIVC), the Building and Ductwork Airtightness Platform (TightVent Europe), and the international platform for ventilative cooling (

The 17^th issue of the TightVent newsletter is now available! Specific contents include:

The AIVC – TightVent – venticool 2019 joint Conference “From Energy crisis to sustainable indoor climate – 40 years of AIVC”, co-organized by Ghent University and the International Network on Ventilation and Energy Performance (INIVE) on behalf of the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (AIVC), the Building and Ductwork Airtightness Platform (TightVent Europe), and the int