After 4 years of active promotion of better building and ductwork airtightness to achieve Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings thanks to its founding and present partners, TightVent Europe opens more broadly to: companies and associations of companies, with annual fees starting at … Continue reading →
One of the objectives of QUALICHeCK is to speed up the implementation and uptake of approaches to improve the reliability of EPC input data and the quality of the works in practice. To this end, a number of fact sheets … Continue reading →
The eighth issue of the TightVent newsletter is now available for download! Contents include: Foreword September 23-24, 2015: 36th AIVC conference, Madrid, Spain QUALICHeCK FACT SHEET: “Building regulations can foster quality management — the French example on building airtightness” March … Continue reading →
This newsletter from the French “Observatoire des Bâtiments Basse Consommation” (Observatoire BBC) gives information on the airtightness of new buildings, based on a comparison between the buildings that have got the “BBC Effinergie” label and buildings that did not get … Continue reading →
This report deals with Indoor Air Quality (IAQ), thermal comfort and daylight requirements in Belgium (Brussels Region), Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden and the UK (England and Wales) and focuses on the respective building codes for new and existing … Continue reading →
A new publication was released in the framework of the International Energy Agency’s Solar Heating and Cooling (SHC) Programme and the Energy in Buildings and Communities (EBC) Programme through the joint SHC Task 40/EBC Annex 52: “Towards net zero energy … Continue reading →
The abstract submission deadline at the 36th AIVC Conference: “Effective ventilation in high performance buildings”, to be held in Madrid, Spain 23-24, 2015 has been extended. The extended deadline for abstract submission is now April 15, 2015. Authors are kindly invited … Continue reading →
The abstract submission deadline at the 36th AIVC Conference: “Effective ventilation in high performance buildings”, to be held in Madrid, Spain 23-24, 2015 has been extended. The extended deadline for abstract submission is now April 15, 2015. Authors are kindly invited … Continue reading →
Around 55 participants from 16 countries attended the international workshop on “Ventilation and Airtightness in Buildings : Voluntary and Regulatory Frameworks to Improve Quality and Compliance” which was held in Lund, Sweden on March 16-17, 2015. One topic of specific attention was schemes … Continue reading →
TightVent is very pleased to continue its collaboration with BUILDAIR initiated in 2011. The BUILDAIR Symposium has been for over 20 years a major event on airtightness issues in Germany. The 9th International BUILDAIR-Symposium offers a variety of presentations and … Continue reading →
