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In the plenary meeting on April 23th the Parliament accepted 90+ changes in the recast EPBD prepared by the Commission, one of those was the extension of the A/C inspections to cover also ventilation.
I am not sure if this really was an intention, and what are the consequences?
If you have any addional information please share that with this community.
How to define ventilation
Dear Peter, REHVA has dicussed this topic, and established a network of ventilation experts. But no results or conclusion yet,. I think the first step, really is to define the ventilation. It still is often mixed with air conditioning or cooling.
Vnetialtion is traditionally defined for a process for air qualty but things get really complicated when talking about natural ventialtion.
But as ventlation is the major energy user of buildings - I feel it should be included in the inspection process. This will be aslo a way to integrate IAQ issues with EPBD. This has been proposed in many forums. One of the latest was EU Commission supported project ENVIE. www.envie-iaq.eu.
Inspection of ventilation systems
On the topic of inspection of ventilation systems, you can refer to the following document.
This paper describes the standards for the inspection of air conditioning and ventilation systems, with special attention to ventilation. It also lists some of the issues and future challenges linked to the inspection of air conditioning and ventilation systems, based on the results of a Workshop within the REHVA Clima 2007 Conference.
http://www.buildup.eu/publications/1282
Recast of EPBD - inspection of ventilation systems
Dear Olli,
This indeed is a very important issue with potentially far going consequences. Has this issue been discussed within the context of REHVA?
Kind regards,
Peter Wouters