Ventilation Information Papers (VIP) are a series of typically short AIVC publications (in most cases 6 to 10 pages) intended for giving a basic knowledge of some aspects related to the air infiltration and/or the ventilation.
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AIVC's Ventilation Information Paper #44: Residential Cooker Hoods, summarizes current knowledge on cooking contaminant emissions, its…
Worldwide, there is an increasing number of publications related to air cleaning and sales of gas phase air cleaning products. This puts…
Building airtightness tests have become very common in several countries, either to comply with minimum requirements of regulations or programmes, or to…
Ventilation Information Paper no40 "Ductwork airtightness - A review", aims to complement…
Ventilation Information Paper no39: “A review of performance-based approaches to residential smart ventilation” provides an overview of the regulations and…
In March 2017, AIVC identified smart ventilation for buildings as a new and important topic to be addressed.
Several actions were defined by AIVC…
This Ventilation Information Paper analyses both the policy instruments used (regulatory requirements and incentives, specific programme requirements,…
In a recent review of 31 green building certification schemes used around the world, IAQ was found to contribute to only 7.5% of the final score on average…
This report summarises the outcome of the work of the initial working phase of IEA ECB Annex 62 Ventilative Cooling and is based on the…
Air supplied by ventilation plants and air conditioning systems carries small particles whose size depends on filtration device efficiency.
Mineral,…
The role of CO2 to control the indoor air quality in buildings is based on the fact that CO2 developed by people breathing may be used as a marker for the…
For the near future the expectation of experts is that the most promising systems will be based on demand-controlled hybrid ventilation technologies. The…
Born with the energetic crisis, humidity controlled ventilation has been introduced in regions with a moderate climate as a means to fight condensation…
This paper summarises presentations and discussions that took place during the workshop entitled “Trends in national building ventilation markets and…
This paper summarises presentations and discussions that took place during the workshop entitled “ Trends in national building ventilation markets and…
Recently, there has been a growing public concern over indoor air quality not only in buildings but also in vehicles. Since the vehicle is the main form of…
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country located in the centre of Europe. The area of the Czech Republic is 78,866 km2 and its population is about 10.4…
Apartment buildings are the most common type of residence in Korea, but since the 1970s it was difficult to supply fresh air due to airtight exterior walls…
Technology in building physics and mechanical engineering for building ventilation may not be totally new area and must have rather long history and much…