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Indoor Environmental Quality

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AIVC's Technical Note 69: 40 years to build tight and ventilate right: History of the AIVC

The AIVC (Air infiltration and Ventilation Centre) is the International Energy Agency’s information centre on energy efficient ventilation. As the AIVC was created in 1979, the 40th anniversary of the AIVC was celebrated in October 2019 at the 40th AIVC conference in Ghent.

Publication

02/09/2022

Summer comfort training by Passivhaus

Changing weather conditions, variations in occupant behaviour can potentially increase the risk of overheating. Passivhaus is offering an online on-demand free training on avoiding overheating risks.

Tool

12/08/2022

The new "Antonio Brancati" middle school

This school is a new sustainable construction which is certified LEED. It is low impact to the environment as it respects the requirements for construction and demolition waste management, zero land consumption and materials used a EPD labelled.

Case study

29/07/2022

The renovation of Green Factory building in Lyon

This building has been awarded the Sustainable renovation Grand Prize of the Green Solutions Awards 2020-21. It represents indeed an example of sustainable construction after renovation.

Case study

26/07/2022

|Webinar| Examples of resilient cooling solutions

It is the motivation of IEA EBC Annex 80 “Resilient Cooling of Buildings” to develop, assess, and communicate active and passive solutions of resilient cooling and overheating protection. This third venticool & AIVC webinar will show Examples of resilient cooling solutions.

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The Passive House building certification

Do you know what are the benefits of building certification? The Passive House Institute provides these type of energy certification, which can be of several levels based on the use of renewable energy.

Link

19/07/2022

Adequate Net Zero Rating and Embodied Energy Evaluation – outPHit publishes reports on new approaches

Making retrofits more reliable and improve the overall building performance are core goals of the outPHit project. In order to achieve these goals, the outPHit consortium has now released two new reports on highly discussed issues: a net zero rating approach and an embodied energy evaluation tool.

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09/06/2022

outPHit project

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09/06/2022

Villa Capodivacca, Italy

Case study

26/05/2022

procuRE selects 3 innovative approaches - Phase I Kick-off

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01/06/2022

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