The presentations of the AIVC workshop "Quality ventilation is the key to achieving low energy healthy buildings" organized by the AIVC together with the SEAI and held on 27-28 March 2019 in Dublin, Ireland are now available for download.

This 2 day workshop provided a wealth of insights from experiences both nationally and internationally. It informed approach on ventilation as a key component of delivering both new buildings and deep retrofit low energy buildings.

We are pleased to announce the release of AIVC Contributed Report 18: Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality in New California Homes with Gas Appliances and Mechanical Ventilation!

The 40^th AIVC Conference  “From Energy crisis to sustainable indoor climate – 40 years of AIVC" will be held during the 15^th & 16^th of October, 2019 at ‘Het Pand’, the congress centre of Ghent University in Ghent, Belgium. It will be a joint event combined with the 8^th TightVent and the 6^th venticool conferences.

Article 19a of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) requires the European Commission to conduct a feasibility study on the possible introduction of the inspection of stand-alone ventilation systems and an optional building renovation passport. In this scope, a technical study has been contracted to a consortium formed by INIVE and BPIE who, together with a broad range of experts in the required fields, provide technical support to the Directorate-General for Energy of the European Commission.

The AIVC is very pleased to welcome Ireland as new participating country! Ireland will be represented in the AIVC board by Simon Jones from Aereco (https://www.aereco.ie/). The AIVC at present counts 17 countries composing the AIVC Board demonstrating the growing interest on air infiltration and ventilation issues in new and renovated buildings.

TightVent Europe and AIVC are organizing the webinar “Ductwork airtightness measurements: protocols” to be held on Thursday 25 April 2019 at 10:00-11:30 (CET). The objective of this webinar is to present existing European standards & protocols for ductwork airtightness tests and compare the different approaches.

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The March 2019 issue of the AIVC newsletter has just been released.

Contents include:

The abstract submission deadline for the 40th AIVC - 8th TightVent - 6th venticool joint conference "From Energy crisis to sustainable indoor climate – 40 years of AIVC" to be held on October 15-16, 2019 in Ghent, Belgium, has been extended to 7 April, 2019.

The conference programme will include well‐prepared and structured sessions focused on the conference topics, invited speakers, long and short oral presentations arising from the call, as well as 90 seconds industry presentations.

Abstract submission is still open.

We are now pleased to announce the release of our  Ventilation Information Paper no 39: A review of performance-based approaches to residential smart ventilation. The paper provides an overview of the regulations and standards proposing “performance-based approaches” in five countries to promote the use of smart ventilation strategies. It shows that a favorable context exists in many countries for the development of smart ventilation strategies.