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. 
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.
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
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.

Building and ductwork airtightness: Selected papers from the REHVA special journal issue on ‘airtightness’. 2013 (Info)

Building and ductwork airtightness: A selection of papers from the proceedings of the 33rd AIVC – 2nd TightVent Conference, October 2012 Copenhagen. 2013 (Info)
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)
AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 45.13: Trends in building and ductwork airtightness in Germany (Stefanie Rolfsmeier, Wolf Rienhardt, 2024)
AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 45.12: Trends in building and ductwork airtightness in USA (Iain Walker, Steve Emmerich, Andrew Persily, 2024)
AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 45.11: Trends in building and ductwork airtightness in New Zealand (Stephen McNeil, Manfred Plagmann, 2024)
AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 45.10: Trends in building and ductwork airtightness in the Republic of Korea (Jae-Hun Jo, Yun-Gyu Lee, 2024)
AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 45.9: Trends in building and ductwork airtightness in Japan (Yoshihiro Toriumi, Hiroshi Yoshino, 2024)
AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 47: High-rise buildings airtightness – error due to stack effect on point measurements (Nolwenn Hurel, Valérie Leprince, 2023)
AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 46: Building airtightness impact on Energy Performance (EP) calculations (Nolwenn Hurel, Valérie Leprince, 2023)
AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 45.8: Trends in building and ductwork airtightness in China (Jie Hu, Guoqiang Zhang, Zhengtao Ai, 2023)
AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 45.7: Trends in building and ductwork airtightness in Greece. (Theodoros Sotirios Tountas, 2023) 
AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 45.6: Trends in building and ductwork airtightness in France. Bassam Moujalled, Adeline Mélois. 2023
AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 45.5: Trends in building and ductwork airtightness in Latvia. Andrejs Nitijevskis, Vladislavs Keviss, Nolwenn Hurel. 2023
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
AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 45.3: Trends in building and ductwork airtightness in the Czech Republic. Jiří Novák, Daniel Adamovský, Jan Vitouš. 2022
AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 45.2: Trends in building and ductwork airtightness in Spain. Timo Hoek, Irene Poza-Casado, Sergio Melgosa. 2022
AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 45.1: Trends in building and ductwork airtightness in Estonia. Targo Kalamees, Jaanus Hallik, Alo Mikola. 2022
AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 40: Ductwork airtightness – A review. Valérie Leprince, Nolwenn Hurel, Maria Kapsalaki. 2020
AIVC Ventilation Information Paper 37:  Impact of Energy Policies on Building and Ductwork Airtightness. Valérie Leprince, Maria Kapsalaki, François Rémi Carrié. 2017.      

 

Building airtightness: A critical review of testing, reporting and quality schemes in 10 countries. François Rémi Carrié and Peter Wouters. 2012. (Info)
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)
Methods and techniques for airtight buildings. F.R. Carrié, R. Jobert, V. Leprince. 2012. (Info)
Critical steps for a wide scale implementation of building and ductwork airtightness. 2011. (Full version, Excerpt, Info)
Other TightVent Publications 
List of applicable standards for building and ductwork airtightness. 2022.
Tightvent’s contribution to the public consultation on the implementation of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD). 2015