In November 2015, the Executive Committee of the  International Energy Agency Energy in Buildings and Communities (IEA EBC) programme approved Annex 68 “Indoor Air quality Design and Control in Low Energy Residential Buildings” for a four years working and reporting phase. The project will be investigating how to ensure that future low energy buildings are able both to improve their energy performance and to provide comfortable and healthy indoor environments.

The two main objectives for the project are:

The 12th REHVA World Congress CLIMA 2016 will be a central event in 2016 for presentation of recent international research activities and their research achievement. Many researchers from IEA and EU projects will at special sessions present their latest research results and in workshops discuss findings and future directions. 

 

The IEA EBC Annex 62 report: “Ventilative Cooling. State-of-The-Art Review” has just been released.

The QUALICHeCK-TightVent webinar: “Building airtightness and initiatives to improve the quality of the works” will be held on Tuesday 12 January, 10:00-11:30 (Brussels time). The objective of this webinar is to give background information on selected initiatives to improve the quality of the works with respect to building airtightness.

The programme includes 4 presentations of 15 minutes as follows:

The principal objective of this webinar series is to give the status, needs, and perspectives on developments to consider ventilative cooling in energy performance assessment methods in several countries. This first webinar will focus on the developments in Austria, Denmark and France.

The 2016 AIVC conference will be organised in collaboration with ASHRAE. It will be held in the Crowne Plaza hotel in Alexandria (10 km from Washington DC) on September 12-14, 2016.

The Conference title is “ IAQ 2016 – Defining Indoor Air Quality: Policy, Standards and Best Practices.”

Contributions are invited on the following themes and topics among others:

Around 160 participants attended the joint 36th AIVC - 5th TightVent – 3rd venticool conference held in Madrid, Spain September 23-24, 2015. The programme consisted of 3 parallel sessions with contributions from 27 countries and international organisations.

Over 120 presentations were given covering topics ranging from ventilative cooling and thermal comfort, ventilation in relation to IAQ and health, air infiltration through leaks in the building envelope and ductwork.

We are very pleased to welcome the UK as new AIVC country. 

The venticool platform paper: “Overview of provisions for ventilative cooling within 8 European building energy performance regulations” is now available online. This study aimed to focus on regulatory measures taken or missing regarding ventilative cooling in several countries, which could either inspire developments in other countries or point out specific problems for the market uptake of this technology.

Please click here to download and read the full paper.

The Indoor Environmental Quality Global alliance (http://ieq-ga.net/) organised its first sessions at the June 2015 ASHRAE Annual conference. The sessions present a holistic approach to indoor environmental quality and give information on different societies' activities to improve the indoor environment. To access the presentations and audio files of the sessions follow the links provided: