About the AIVC

Ventilation and air infiltration into buildings represent a substantial energy demand which can account for between 25% to over 50% of a building's total space heating (or cooling) needs. Unnecessary or excessive air change can therefore have an important impact on global energy use. On the other hand insufficient ventilation may result in poor indoor air quality and consequential health problems.

Designing for optimum ventilation performance is hence a vital part of building design. This task is made especially difficult, however, by the complexities of airflow behaviour, climatic influences, occupancy patterns and pollutant emission characteristics.

In recognition of the significant impact of ventilation on energy use, combined with concerns over indoor air quality, the International Energy Agency (IEA) inaugurated the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre in 1979 (To be more precise, the AIVC is one of the annexes running under the ECBCS, Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems, which is one of the Implementing Agreements of the IEA). The AIVC offers industry and research organisations technical support aimed at optimising ventilation technology. We offer a range of services and facilities, including comprehensive database on literature standards, and ventilation data.

We also produce a series of guides and technical notes.The Centre holds annual conferences and workshops.

The operating agent of the AIVC is INIVE eeig (www.inive.org)

The following countries participate in the AIVC.

Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Sweden, USA

List of AIVC Board members

Belgium           
Arnold Janssens, University of Ghent, http://www.architectuur.ugent.be/bouwfysica/
Jean Lebrun, University of Liege, http://www.labothap.ulg.ac.be

Czech Republic
Miroslav Jicha, Brno University of Technology , http://www.vutbr.cz/en
Karele Kabele, Czech Technical University , http://www.cvut.cz/en

Denmark         
Bjarne Olesen, Technical Unoversity of Denmark, http://www.dtu.dk/English.aspx
Alireza Afshari, Danish Building Research Institute, Aalborg University, http://www.en.sbi.dk/

France              
François Durier, CETIAT , http://www.cetiat.fr/index_gb.cfm
Pierre Hérant, ADEME, http://www2.ademe.fr/servlet/getDoc?id=38480&m=3&cid=96

Germany         
Hans Erhorn, Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics, http://www.ibp.fraunhofer.de/wt/
Heike Erhorn-Kluttig, Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics, http://www.ibp.fraunhofer.de/wt

Greece
Mat Santamouris, NKUA University of Athens, http://en.uoa.gr

Italy
Lorenzo Pagliano, Politecnico di Milano, http://www.english.polimi.it

Japan  
Shigeki Nishizawa, NILIM , http://www.nilim.go.jp/english/eindex.htm
Takao Sawachi, Building Research Institute , http://www.kenken.go.jp/english

Netherlands  
Kees De Schipper, VLA , http://www.vla.nu
Wouter Borsboom, TNO, http://www.tno.nl/index.cfm?Taal=2

New Zealand
Manfred Plagmann, BRANZ, http://www.branz.co.nz/

Norway
Peter Schild, SINTEF Byggforsk , http://www.sintef.no/byggforsk

Portugal             
More information about members will follow very soon.

Republic of Korea  
Yun Gyu Lee, Korea Institute of Construction Technology, http://www.kict.re.kr/eng
Jae-Weon Jeong, Sejong University , http://www.sejong.ac.kr/eng

Sweden            
Carl-Eric Hagentoft, Chalmers University of Technology , http://www.chalmers.se/en
Paula Wahlgren, Chalmers University of Technology, http://www.chalmers.se/en

USA     
Andrew Persily, NIST, http://www.nist.gov
Max Sherman, LBNL, http://www.lbl.gov

Operating agent
INIVE EEIG, http://www.inive.org, info@aivc.org
Peter Wouters, operating agent
Rémi Carrié, senior consultant
Samuel Caillou
Stéphane Degauquier

AIVC board guests
Morad Atif • José Maria Campos • Willem de Gids • Maria Kolokotroni • Martin Liddament • Eduardo Maldonado • Paulo Santos • Hiroshi Yoshino

Representatives of organisations
Francis Allard, REHVA, http://www.rehva.eu
Jan Hensen, IBPSA, http://www.ibpsa.org