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 →
During the TightVent-AIVC webinar Building airtightness improvements of the building stock- Analysis of European databases held on 19 January 2021, Adeline Melois from CEREMA (centre d’études et d’expertise sur les risques, l’environnement, la mobilité et l’aménagement), provided an analysis of … Continue reading →
The 20th issue of the TightVent newsletter is now available! Specific contents include: Foreword [POSTPONED] 41st AIVC – ASHRAE – IAQ – 9th TightVent & 7th venticool joint Conference Impact of the wind during a building air leakage measurement TAAC news New release! AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 41: Impact of … Continue reading →
[COVID-19 update] Because of COVID-19 uncertainty of conditions to hold a face-to-face conference in Athens in September 2021, ASHRAE and AIVC decided to postpone the conference and reschedule it for May 4-6, 2022. There will not be a new call for … Continue reading →
The 12th International BUILDAIR Symposium will take place on June 25 and 26, 2021 – as a bilingual online conference, in view of the corona situation. The meeting again offers an ambitious programme. Among other things, the presentations will deal with measuring techniques, … Continue reading →
The Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (https://www.aivc.org/) & the IEA EBC Annex 86 “Energy Efficient Indoor Air Quality Management in Residential Buildings” (https://annex86.iea-ebc.org/) are organizing a workshop consisting of a series of four webinars on: April 1st, 2021 (17:00-18:30 CET) – Building … Continue reading →
The Air Infiltration & Ventilation Centre has just released Ventilation Information Paper no 41: Impact of wind on the airtightness test results. This paper aims to present and discuss the calculation method of standard ISO 9972 regarding the uncertainty induced by wind; … Continue reading →
The 12th International BUILDAIR Symposium will take place on June 25 and 26, 2021 – as a bilingual online conference, in view of the corona situation. The meeting again offers an ambitious programme. Among other things, the presentations will deal with … Continue reading →
The recordings and the slides of the recent AIVC-TightVent webinar: “Building airtightness improvements of the building stock- Analysis of European databases” held on January 19th, 2021, are now available online! The full collection of past events’ recordings and slides can … Continue reading →
Tuesday, January 19th, 2021 10:00-11:15 CET Air infiltration in buildings has multiple consequences on energy use and indoor environmental quality. Therefore, in the last 10 years many countries have introduced requirements for building airtightness in their EP-regulation. Those requirements often … Continue reading →
