The International Energy Agency's Energy in Buildings and Communities (IEA-EBC) Programme newsletter of June 2016 (Issue 63) has been released. 

Featured articles include:

• Norway demonstrates zero emission buildings.
• Computational tools for buildings and communities.
• Financing deep energy retrofit projects.
• Reliability of energy efficient building retrofitting.
• Making a case for building energy epidemiology.
• EBC international projects.

A special issue of the International Journal of Ventilation was released in March, 2016 with selected extended papers from the 35th AIVC Conference: “Ventilation and Airtightness in Transforming the Building Stock to High Performance”.

The list of articles includes:

A half day seminar, organised by the Cork Institute of Technology in collaboration with IEA EBC Annex 62 – Ventilative Cooling, will be held on Wednesday, April 20, 2016 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM in Cork, Ireland.The event will present state of the art in utilising ventilation for reducing cooling energy demand and addressing the risk of overheating in low energy buildings.

With the aim to maximise its impact on the dissemination of information on research and development in the fields of ventilation and air infiltration, the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (AIVC) continues to “spread the word”, through the organisation of conferences or thematic workshops, the production of technical notes, the cooperation with well-established organisations, the convergence with other information channels and so on.

The new TN68 Residential Ventilation and Health is now available.

This Technical Note summarises studies that prioritise pollutants in the indoor environment and presents a summary of pollutants driving the health risks indoors and their sources. It also describes methods to reduce exposures of contaminants using different control strategies with a special emphasis on the role of ventilation.

The joint CLIMA 2016 and the 12th REHVA Conference will be held in Aalborg, Denmark on 22-25 May 2016. A specific session dealing with ventilation and air infiltration is organised by the AIVC. The session will take place in Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre meeting room 9, on Wednesday, May 25 from 13:00 to 14:30.

The annual report of 2015 of the International Energy Agency's Energy in Buildings and Communities (IEA-EBC) Programme is now available. This report presents an overview of the Programme's main activities with summaries of new, ongoing and recently completed projects.

Download the full report at: https://www.iea-ebc.org/publications/annual-reports

IEA EBC Annex 62 continues to build on activities in synergy with venticool. As illustration, IEA EBC Annex 62 accomplished a major milestone last November with the publication of the state-of-the-art review on ventilative cooling, now available on the venticool website. The Annex results were intensively discussed during the 36th AIVC-3rd venticool joint conference.

The REHVA January 2016 issue, focusing on Ventilative Cooling is now available.

Featured articles include:

On February 2, 2016, the BUILD UP portal for energy efficient buildings is holding an online webstreamed event to mark the launch of the improved website. Expert speakers will present the findings of the Concerted Action EPBD. 

For further information please visit:https://build-up.ec.europa.eu/en/home