In September 2012, TightVent Europe set up the TightVent Airtightness Associations Committee (TAAC committee) aiming to bring together airtightness testers associations with the primary goal to promote reliable testing and reporting procedures. Since then, the committee has met nine times … Continue reading →
The Flemish, Brussels and Walloon regions of Belgium have introduced the airtightness of buildings determined by fan pressurization tests in their regional Energy Performance (EP) regulations. Airtightness testing is not mandatory; however, when using the result of an airtightness test … Continue reading →
The international workshop on “Ventilation and Airtightness in Buildings : Voluntary and Regulatory Frameworks to Improve Quality and Compliance” will be held in Lund, Sweden on March 16-17, 2015. One topic of specific attention will be schemes implemented in various countries to … Continue reading →
The seventh issue of the TightVent newsletter is now available for download! Contents include: Foreword Recent Belgian developments on quality frameworks for airtightness 35th AIVC- 4th TightVent Conference Updates Accuracy of multi zone air leakage measurements September 23-24, 2015: 36th … Continue reading →
Over the past few years, there has been an increasing number of airtightness tests performed in Europe either for specific high-performance buildings programmes or for a wide range of buildings in regulatory contexts. This has led to the development of … Continue reading →
The 36th AIVC conference: ‘Effective ventilation in high performance buildings’ will be held in the city of Madrid, Spain together with the 5th TightVent and the 3rd venticool conferences in September 23-24, 2015. It will be a major international event in 2015 focusing … Continue reading →
Around 150 participants attended the joint 35th AIVC –4th TightVent 2nd venticool conference held in Poznań, Poland September 24-25, 2014! The programme consisted of 3 parallel sessions with contributions from 27 countries and international organizations. Over 100 presentations were given covering topics ranging … Continue reading →
There are at present more than 100 registered participants for this conference which will be held on September 30 in Brussels. Click here for the updated conference flyer. There are several presentations specifically dealing with the topics of building and ductwork … Continue reading →
The 1st international QUALICHeCK Conference “Towards improved compliance and quality of the works for better performing buildings” will take place in the KBC auditorium: Havenlaan 2, 1080 Brussels, Belgium. The event represents the main physical opportunity to expand dialogue on … Continue reading →
The 2013 Conference of the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre, AIVC, was organized together with the 2nd Cool Roof Conference and the 1st Venticool Conference in Athens, Greece during September 2013. The theme of the Conference was ‘Energy Conservation Technologies for Mitigation … Continue reading →
