The recordings and the slides of our recent webinar: “Ductwork airtightness: Standardisation’s on- going work and an overview of status and trends in Sweden, Japan, Spain and Portugal” organised in cooperation with TightVent Europe and the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre, are now available online at: http://tightvent.eu/events/webinars. Check them out!
TightVent is very pleased to welcome SIGA, as new partner! For half a century and with great expertise and enthusiasm, we have been developing and producing nontoxic adhesives, tapes and membranes for creating airtight building envelopes. Since 1966, SIGA has … Continue reading
The AIVC (Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre) and the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Low Carbon Living warmly invite you to participate in a free, one-day workshop Ventilation for Indoor Air Quality and Cooling in Sydney on Friday 23 March, … Continue reading
Thursday 25 January 2018, 09:00-10:30 (Brussels time, CET) Work performed so far in the field of ductwork airtightness has shown that it may lead to important energy losses and increased fan energy use. Nevertheless, a recent survey has shown that ductwork … Continue reading
The 13th issue of the TightVent newsletter is now available! Contents include: Foreword 18 -19 September 2018 – 39th AIVC & 7th TightVent conference in Juan-les-Pins, France Feedback from the 38th AIVC & 6th TightVent conference: Summary of the airtightness … Continue reading
The airtightness track at the AIVC 2017 conference consisted of 23 presentations organised in 5 sessions of which 3 were topical sessions with a number of invited presentations. Most of the airtightness topics in the call for papers for the … Continue reading
New Zealand homes and apartments have become more and more airtight and have reached a level of airtightness that requires dedicated ventilation. Despite the fact that there is no airtightness requirement in the New Zealand Building Code, new homes regularly … Continue reading
Eurovent Certita Certification is pleased to announce the launch of a new certification programme for Ventilation Ducts (DUCT). The DUCT programme has been developed in 2015-2016 with the support of a dedicated launching committee. The first release of the Operational … Continue reading
The 7th TightVent conference will be held on 18 and 19 September 2018 in Juan-les-Pins, France together with the 39th AIVC conference and the 5th venticool conference. The title of the conference is “Smart ventilation for buildings”. Conference Scope Energy and climate goals have … Continue reading
The “ASHRAE HVAC Duct Sizer” application designed by Carmel Software Corporation for ASHRAE, allows the user to quickly size one HVAC duct run or a range of duct sizes using the constant friction method. In the “Size by Airflow” mode, … Continue reading
