The final programme for the 38th AIVC – 6th TightVent – 4th venticool conference: “Ventilating healthy low-energy buildings” has been released. The joint conference, co-organized by the International Network on Ventilation and Energy Performance (INIVE), on behalf of the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (AIVC), TightVent Europe (the Building and Ductwork Airtightness Platform) and venticool (the international platform for ventilative cooling, Brunel University London, the University of Nottingham & CIBSE, took place Sept. 13-14, 2017, in Nottingham, UK.

The conference programme included several high profile keynote speakers:

• Sani Dimitroulopoulou, Public Health England
• Cath Noakes, University of Leeds
• Tadj Oreszczyn, the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE)
• Peter Rankin, Department for Communities and Local Government
• Paul Ruyssevelt, University College London (UCL)
• Don Weekes, Indoor Environmental Quality Global Alliance (IEQ-GA)
• Ant Wilson, Aecom

There was be a total of 11 topical sessions:

• IEA-EBC Annex 62: Ventilative Cooling: Lessons learnt from case-studies
• IEA-EBC Annex 62: Ventilative Cooling: Strategies and components
• Durability of airtightness
• Ventilation measurements
• Integrating uncertainties due to wind in declared airtightness results
• Health outcomes of ventilation
• IEA-EBC Annex 68: Design and Operational Strategies for High IAQ in Low Energy Buildings – Towards better understanding of needs and challenges related to residential ventilation
• Effects and performance of cooker hoods in dwellings
• Utilization of heat recovery in residential ventilation systems
• Low energy ventilation network
• Smart Overheating Prevention & Resilient Cooling in Changing Urban Climate

For further information visit the conference website at: https://www.aivc.org/event/13-14-september-2017-conference-nottingham-38th-aivc-conference