Publications from the AIVC-TightVent annual conferences and workshops |
Inspection of ventilation systems – summary of existing protocols and technical survey. Nolwenn Hurel, Valérie Leprince. 42nd AIVC Conference “Ventilation challenges in a changing world”, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 5-6 October 2022. |
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Building and ductwork airtightness requirements in Europe – Comparison of 10 European countries. Valérie Leprince, François Rémi Carrié, Maria Kapsalaki. 38th AIVC Conference “Ventilating healthy low-energy buildings”, Nottingham, UK, 13-14 September 2017. |
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Comparison of building preparation rules for airtightness testing in 11 European countries. Valérie Leprince, François-Rémi Carrié. 35th AIVC Conference ” Ventilation and airtightness in transforming the building stock to high performance”, Poznan, Poland, 24-25 September 2014 |
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Reasons behind and lessons learnt with the development of airtightness testers schemes in 11 European countries. Valérie Leprince, François Rémi Carrié. International Workshop: Quality of Methods for Measuring Ventilation and Air Infiltration in Buildings | Brussels, Belgium 18-19 March 2014. |
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Building and ductwork airtightness: Selected papers from the REHVA special journal issue on ‘airtightness’. 2013 (Info)
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Building and ductwork airtightness: A selection of papers from the proceedings of the 33rd AIVC – 2nd TightVent Conference, October 2012 Copenhagen. 2013 (Info) |
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Publications (in collaboration with AIVC, TightVent & TAAC) |
AIVC Technical Note 73: Overview of the trends in building and ductwork airtightness in 16 countries (Nolwenn Hurel, Valerie Leprince, 2024) |
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AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 45.13: Trends in building and ductwork airtightness in Germany (Stefanie Rolfsmeier, Wolf Rienhardt, 2024) |
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AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 45.12: Trends in building and ductwork airtightness in USA (Iain Walker, Steve Emmerich, Andrew Persily, 2024) |
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AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 45.11: Trends in building and ductwork airtightness in New Zealand (Stephen McNeil, Manfred Plagmann, 2024) |
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AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 45.10: Trends in building and ductwork airtightness in the Republic of Korea (Jae-Hun Jo, Yun-Gyu Lee, 2024) |
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AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 45.9: Trends in building and ductwork airtightness in Japan (Yoshihiro Toriumi, Hiroshi Yoshino, 2024) |
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AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 47: High-rise buildings airtightness – error due to stack effect on point measurements (Nolwenn Hurel, Valérie Leprince, 2023) |
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AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 46: Building airtightness impact on Energy Performance (EP) calculations (Nolwenn Hurel, Valérie Leprince, 2023) |
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AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 45.8: Trends in building and ductwork airtightness in China (Jie Hu, Guoqiang Zhang, Zhengtao Ai, 2023) |
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AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 45.7: Trends in building and ductwork airtightness in Greece. (Theodoros Sotirios Tountas, 2023) |
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AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 45.6: Trends in building and ductwork airtightness in France. Bassam Moujalled, Adeline Mélois. 2023 |
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AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 45.5: Trends in building and ductwork airtightness in Latvia. Andrejs Nitijevskis, Vladislavs Keviss, Nolwenn Hurel. 2023 |
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AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 45.4: Trends in building and ductwork airtightness in Belgium. Liesje Van Gelder, Maarten De Strycker, Christophe Delmotte, Arnold Janssens. 2023 |
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AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 45.3: Trends in building and ductwork airtightness in the Czech Republic. Jiří Novák, Daniel Adamovský, Jan Vitouš. 2022 |
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AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 45.2: Trends in building and ductwork airtightness in Spain. Timo Hoek, Irene Poza-Casado, Sergio Melgosa. 2022 |
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AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 45.1: Trends in building and ductwork airtightness in Estonia. Targo Kalamees, Jaanus Hallik, Alo Mikola. 2022 |
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AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 40: Ductwork airtightness – A review. Valérie Leprince, Nolwenn Hurel, Maria Kapsalaki. 2020 |
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AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 37: Impact of Energy Policies on Building and Ductwork Airtightness. Valérie Leprince, Maria Kapsalaki, François Rémi Carrié. 2017.
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Building airtightness: A critical review of testing, reporting and quality schemes in 10 countries. François Rémi Carrié and Peter Wouters. 2012. (Info) |
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Building air leakage databases in energy conservation policies: Analysis of selected initiatives in 4 European countries and the USA. Wanyu R. Chan, François Rémi Carrié, Jiří Novák, Andrés Litvak, Fabrice Richieri, Oliver Solcher, Wei Pan, and Steven Emmerich. 2012. (Info) |
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Methods and techniques for airtight buildings. F.R. Carrié, R. Jobert, V. Leprince. 2012. (Info) |
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Critical steps for a wide scale implementation of building and ductwork airtightness. 2011. (Full version, Excerpt, Info) |
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Other TightVent Publications |
List of applicable standards for building and ductwork airtightness. 2022. |
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Tightvent’s contribution to the public consultation on the implementation of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD). 2015 |
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