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Favorite Energy Efficiency and Indoor Climate in Buildings is out! Edition of October 2020

The October 2020 issue of the “Energy Efficiency and Indoor Climate in Buildings” newsletter has just been released. This monthly online newspaper contains relevant information on the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (AIVC), the building and ductwork airtightness platform (TightVent Europe), the  platform for resilient ventilative cooling (venticool), the Dynastee network, the Indoor Environmental Quality – Global Alliance (IEQ-GA) & EU relevant information. The paper is available at the first week of every month at: http://news.inive.org/

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Favorite TightVent newsletter issue #18 – May 2020 now available

The 18th issue of the TightVent newsletter is now available! Specific contents include:

  • Foreword
  • 14 -16 September 2020 – 41st AIVC & 9th TightVent – ASHRAE IAQ joint conference in Athens, Greece
  • AIVC Ventilation Information Paper no 40 “Ductwork airtightness- A review”
  • TAAC news
  • TightVent-AIVC Webinars on durability of airtightness – Recordings available
  • AIVC- TightVent project: Integrating uncertainties due to wind and stack in declared airtightness results
  • Durabilit’AIR project: Feedback and follow up
  • Guidelines for airtightness measurements of high-rise buildings
  • Product news from our partners

To download the newsletter please click here.

Favorite New release! AIVC Literature List 35 “Building & Ductwork Airtightness”

The Air Infiltration & Ventilation Centre has just released AIVC Literature List 35 “Building & Ductwork Airtightness”.

The document is split into 3 main chapters including:

  1. papers & slides presented at AIVC & TightVent Europe annual conferences and publications produced in collaboration with AIVC & TightVent Europe,
  2. slides presented at workshops organized with the collaboration of AIVC, TightVent Europe & the QUALICHeCK platform, and
  3. recordings from webinars organized with the collaboration AIVC, TightVent Europe & the QUALICHeCK platform.

Please click here to download and read the document. 

Favorite Selected papers from the AIVC – TightVent- venticool 2019 Conference published at the REHVA journal 02/2020 issue!

The April 2020 edition of the REHVA Journal has been released, including a selection of articles presented at the 40th AIVC – 8th TightVent & 6th venticool Conference, 2019 “From energy crisis to sustainable indoor climate – 40 years of AIVC” held in Ghent, Belgium on 15-16 October, 2019.

Specific articles include:

  • Real-life ventilation filter performance in a city environment | Joris Van Herreweghe (BBRI, BE), Samuel Caillou (BBRI, BE), Tom Haerinck (BBRI, BE), Johan Van Dessel (BBRI, BE)
  • Particle filtration in energy efficient housing with MVHR | Gabriel Rojas (Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria)
  • Cloud based large-scale performance analysis of a smart residential MEV system | Bavo De Maré (Renson Ventilation, BE), Stijn Germonpré (Renson Ventilation, BE), Jelle Laverge (Ghent University, BE), Frederik Losfeld (Renson Ventilation, BE), Ivan Pollet (Renson Ventilation, BE), Steven Vandekerckhove (Renson Ventilation & KU Leuven, BE)
  • Assessment of mid-term and long-term building airtightness durability | Bassam Moujalled (Cerema, FR), Sylvain Berthault (Cerema, FR), Andrés Litvak (Cerema, FR), Valérie Leprince (PLEIAQ, FR), Gilles Frances (Cetii, FR)
  • New findings on measurements of very airtight buildings | Stefanie Rolfsmeier (BlowerDoor GmbH, DE)
  • Influence of horizontal mounted flue gas exhaust systems on indoor air quality | Xavier Kuborn (BBRI, BE), Sébastien Pecceu (BBRI, BE)

To download and read the full journal please visit: https://www.rehva.eu//rehva-journal/detail/02-2020

Favorite New release! AIVC Ventilation Information Paper no 40 “Ductwork airtightness – A review”

The Air Infiltration & Ventilation Centre has just released Ventilation Information Paper no 40: “Ductwork airtightness – A review“.

The paper aims to complement Ventilation Information Paper VIP 01 “Airtightness of ventilation ducts”. It provides a literature review of the work performed since 2003 in the field of ductwork airtightness.

Its objectives are to provide information on:

  • the impact of ductwork airtightness;
  • regulations and standards;
  • measurements methods; and
  • the implementation of ductwork airtightness.

Please click here to download and read the document.