The 39th AIVC Conference "Smart Ventilation for Buildings", was held in Antibes Juan-Les-Pins, France, 18-19 September 2018. Contains 140 papers and/or summaries.
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In order to provide patients with a high quality indoor environment and ensure a pleasant working place for medical care personnel, thermal environment and…
Norwegian building regulations refer to the NS-EN 15251 and the NS-ISO 7730 to define indoor climate criteria in new buildings. For example, the standards…
The ClimACT project has been developed under the priority axis “Low Carbon Economy” of the Interreg SUDOE program. It aims to support the transition to a…
Using natural ventilation is effective to save energy, and it is essential for energy conservation and decreasing running cost [1]. However, in office…
Because of the need of energy conservation and Business Continuity Planning (BCP), natural ventilation system, which basically does not use non-renewable…
Drøbak Montessori lower secondary school is Norway’s first plus-energy school and also the first school built after the Norwegian Powerhouse-concept,…
Natural and Hybrid ventilation systems, by using exclusively or partially natural driving forces, help to reconcile building energy sobriety and good Indoor…
Indoor environment and indoor air quality (IAQ) are considered as subjects of major concern: as we build more and more energy efficient and airtight…
In France, the new Promevent protocol for ventilation system inspection in new dwellings has been published in 2017. It proposes a complete method for…
The “VIA-Qualité” project (2013-2016) aims at developing quality management (QM) approaches (ISO 9001) on ventilation and indoor air quality (IAQ), for low-…
One of the main factors influencing building airtightness is the construction typology. As building environmental performance requirements raise so does the…
The increasing weight of building leakages energy impact on the overall energy performance of low-energy buildings led to a better understanding of the…
In this study, durability of building airtightness was assessed by means of repeated airtightness testing of the studied houses. This approach generally…
The air leakage impact on energy performance in buildings has already been broadly studied in USA, Canada and most European countries. However, there is a…
The French database of building airtightness has been fed by measurement performed by qualified testers since 2006. In 2015 and 2016, the database was…
Since January 1st, 2018, airtightness testing has become implicitly mandatory for every new residential building in Flanders. There is no minimum…
What if all the devices in your life could connect to the internet? Not just computers and smartphones, but everything: clocks, speakers, lights, door bells…
Indoor air quality and comfort of occupants, in the context of international commitments, reduction of energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions is an…
The opening keynote will present an overview of the current status and future opportunities for smart buildings in Europe, in the context of the transition…
Energy performance of buildings has been continuously and systematically improved in Europe with next step of transition to nearly zero energy…