The TAAC working group provides the opportunity to exchange on practices within countries; various surveys have been performed leading to the following outputs (i.e. publications):
| Articles published during 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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AIVC publications (in collaboration with TightVent & TAAC) |
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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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| TightVent webinars providing an overview of approaches in various countries | |
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Inspection of ventilation systems in new regulations in European countries, 30 November 2021 |
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Building airtightness improvements of the building stock- Analysis of European databases, 19 January 2021 |
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Ductwork airtightness measurements: protocols, 25 April 2019 |
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Ductwork airtightness: Standardisation’s on- going work and an overview of status and trends in Sweden, Japan, Spain and Portugal, 25 January 2018 |
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Airtightness testing part 3: Status and trends in competent tester schemes in Denmark, Ireland and Sweden, 20 November 2014 |
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Airtightness testing part 2: Status and trends in competent tester schemes in Germany, the Czech Republic and France, 22 November 2013 |
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Airtightness testing part 1: Status and trends in competent tester schemes in the UK and Belgium, 14 November 2013 |
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| Topical sessions organized during the annual AIVC – TightVent joint Conferences | |
| Topical session on: “Building and ductwork airtightness regulations in Europe” organized during the 42nd AIVC-10th TightVent & 8th Venticool Conference “Ventilation challenges in a changing world”, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands |  |
| Topical session on “Building and ductwork airtightness regulations in Europe” organized during the 39th AIVC – 7th TightVent & 5th venticool Conference “Smart ventilation for buildings”, in Antibes, Juan-les-Pins, France. |  |
| Topical session on “Building airtightness testing: ground status from various countries” organized during the 36th AIVC – 5th TightVent & 3rd venticool Conference “Effective ventilation in high performance buildings”, in Madrid, Spain. |  |
| Topical session on “Quality issues in airtightness testing” organized during the 35th AIVC – 4th TightVent & 2nd venticool Conference “Ventilation and airtightness in transforming the building stock to high performance”, in Poznan, Poland. |  |