The 21st issue of the TightVent newsletter is now available! Specific contents include: Foreword 5 – 6 October 2022 – 42nd AIVC – 10th TightVent- 8th venticool conference in Rotterdam, Netherlands 4 – 6 May 2022 – 41st AIVC – ASHRAE … Continue reading →
The 42nd AIVC conference: “Ventilation Challenges in a Changing World” will be held in the city of Rotterdam, the Netherlands together with the 10th TightVent and the 8th venticool conferences on October 5-6, 2022. Conference Scope More than ever in the past, climate change and the … Continue reading →
Tuesday 30 November 2021, 10:30-12:00 CET In the context of energy use reduction, low energy buildings are becoming more widespread. This kind of construction requires a good envelope airtightness to prevent uncontrolled leakages of conditioned air leading to energy losses. … Continue reading →
As the energy performance of buildings, the indoor air quality and the preservation of buildings from constructive pathologies are based – in particular – on good airtightness of the envelope, the durability of the latter is recognized now as an … Continue reading →
The recordings and the slides of the recent AIVC-TightVent webinar: “Impact of wind on airtightness test results” held on November 8th, 2021, are now available online! The full collection of past events’ recordings and slides can be found at: http://tightvent.eu/events/webinars Check … Continue reading →
ATTMA, the Air Tightness Testing & Measurement Association, has been analysing improvements in the new-build dwellings over the last 6 years using its specially designed Lodgement system. ATTMA members are required to record information from each test by uploading the … Continue reading →
Monday, November 8th, 2021 15:30-16:45 CET Building airtightness tests have become very common in many countries, either to comply with minimum requirements of regulations or programmes, or to justify input values in calculation methods. Thus, it has become very important … Continue reading →
The preparations for the 42nd AIVC-10th TightVent- 8th venticool conference have started. It is the intention to have this conference in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on 5-6 October 2022. A professional conference organizer is involved in these preparations. More information will … Continue reading →
During the TightVent-AIVC webinar Building airtightness improvements of the building stock- Analysis of European databases held on 19 January 2021, Barry Cope, the CEO of the Building Compliance Testers Association (BCTA) provided an analysis of the ATTMA (Air Tightness Testing … Continue reading →
During the TightVent-AIVC webinar Building airtightness improvements of the building stock- Analysis of European databases held on 19 January 2021, Maarten De Strycker from the Belgian Construction Certification Association (BCCA) provided an analysis of the of the BCCA airtightness database … Continue reading →
