Ventilation represents a very high part of the building’s energy load. Increased envelope protection combined with the significant increase of the ambient temperature, turn ventilation into one of the major energy consuming uses requiring the development and use of innovative and efficient new technologies to minimise the ventilation energy load.
Post date: 18 Oct 2022
Type: Event
The H2020 project SENSEI designs and tests innovative transaction models to enable energy efficiency upgrades within buildings. The key to these models is a concept named ‘Pay-for-performance (P4P)’, which verifies future cost savings to support financial planning.
Post date: 14 Oct 2022
Type: News
Residencial Basa de la Mora III is part of a block of flats located in Miralbueno, on the edge of the city of Zaragoza, in Spain. It consists of 65 dwellings with an average living area of 85 square metres and 2, 3 and 4 bedrooms per dwelling. The dwellings face two different directions, allowing for cross ventilation. The design is completed by the presence of large terraces for private use that guarantee sufficient solar protection for the façade openings.
Post date: 13 Oct 2022
Type: Case
The presentations these EU-funded projects took place in two sessions: Part 1: “Upgrading smartness of existing buildings through innovations for legacy equipment” Part 2: Smart operation and building dynamic optimization This article gives an overview on the projects presented, the innovations and lessons learnt / next steps in the project.
Post date: 12 Oct 2022
Type: Link
The presentations these EU-funded projects took place in two sessions:
Post date: 12 Oct 2022
Type: Link
In many locations in the world, the outdoor air quality is so bad that it is better to avoid supplying outdoor air to the buildings. In such cases, the alternative to use ventilation is to substitute supply of outdoor air with air cleaning. Even when outdoor air is of a good quality, the use of air cleaning substituting ventilation air could reduce the rate of outdoor air supplied indoors. Therefore, it is possible to save energy for pre-heating/cooling the ventilation air and for transporting the air (fan energy).
Post date: 11 Oct 2022
Type: Event
The transition to climate neutrality has a large impact on the job of building and HVAC designers, manufacturers, installers, investors, etc. Renovating our building stock to make it more energy efficient is a huge task. Both research and practice prove that users have an important impact on this performance.
Post date: 5 Sep 2022
Type: Event
Much progress has been made to improve the airtightness level of new buildings. Still, little is known about the durability of building airtightness, or the impact of degradation on airtightness. Regarding field measurement studies, the envelope airtightness seems to decrease during the first years after achievement and then stabilize.
Post date: 2 Sep 2022
Type: Publication
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. In the context of this celebration, it was decided to publish 2 overview publications:
Post date: 2 Sep 2022
Type: Publication
In the context of this celebration, it was decided to publish 2 overview publications:
Post date: 2 Sep 2022
Type: Publication