Overheating is an issue of concern in many countries, in general and in particular in new buildings. With continued climate change, the probability of overheating will increase. Increased ventilation rates, in combination with solar control and other passive measures, can play an important role in reducing high internal temperatures. Resilient Ventilative cooling will gain in importance for new and existing buildings as it can contribute to energy efficient cooling in moderate and hot climates.

The AIVC’s work related to resilient ventilative cooling issues is done in close collaboration with the venticool platform (https://venticool.eu/), the IEA- EBC annex 62 (https://venticool.eu/annex-62-home/) and annex 80 (https://annex80.iea-ebc.org/).

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Publications

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Events

30
Sep
2026
The 46th AIVC conference "Innovations in Smart Ventilation and...
21
Apr
2026
The Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (AIVC) together with the...
24
Sep
2025
The conference "IEQ 2025: Rising to new challenges: Connecting IEQ to...
05
May
2025
Climate change is leading to increasingly frequent and severe heatwaves, which...

Projects

The current development in building energy efficiency towards nearly-zero...
Projects