Importance of thermal stack effect in ventilative cooling concepts for residential buildings

This paper investigates the impact of ventilative cooling in residential buildings constructed from light-weight cross-laminated timber. Different temperature-controlled ventilative cooling concepts such as single sided ventilation, cross-ventilation and thermal stack based chimney ventilation concepts are simulated and compared in terms of impact on indoor temperature and robustness to external conditions such as the surroundings and the building orientation.

Renewable ventilative cooling? Insights from an Irish perspective

The future needs of indoor spaces in our buildings are likely to be cooling focused. With the widespread use of air-conditioning (AC) on the horizon there is now a need to ensure our systems perform as renewables (under the relevant definitions). A key part of tackling the uptake in energy intensive AC is likely to be the balancing of AC with renewable natural and mechanical ventilative cooling (VC).

Upcoming AIVC & venticool webinars - March 2024

AIVC & venticool are inviting you to register for the upcoming webinars:

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venticool newsletter issue #23 – January 2024

The 23rd issue of the venticool newsletter is now available! Specific contents include:

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Submit your abstracts for the AIVC 2024 Conference, Dublin

We are pleased to announce that the AIVC 2024 Conference “Retrofitting the Building Stock: Challenges and Opportunities for Indoor Environmental Quality" is now accepting abstracts & proposals for topical sessions. The Conference will be held on October 9-10, 2024, at Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland. It will be a joint event combined with the 12th TightVent and the 10th venticool conferences.

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Ventilation Challenges in a Changing World (Book of Proceedings)

The Book of Proceedings of the 42nd AIVC - 10th TightVent - 8th venticool Conference: "Ventilation Challenges in a Changing World" held in Rotterdam, Netherlands on 5-6 October 2022

Ventilation Challenges in a Changing World (Slides)

The Presentations at the 42nd AIVC - 10th TightVent - 8th venticool Conference: "Ventilation Challenges in a Changing World" held in Rotterdam, Netherlands on 5-6 October 2022

 

Feedback from the 41st AIVC – ASHRAE IAQ joint Conference

The 41st AIVC – ASHRAE IAQ joint Conference, co-organized by ASHRAE & AIVC, was held on 4-6 May 2022 in Athens. The event drew around 185 participants (in person and remotely) – academic researchers, engineering and consulting firms, industry representatives, people involved in standardisation, policy makers, manufacturers & stakeholders and international organizations.

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AIVC 2022 Conference, Rotterdam – 5-6 October, 2022

We are pleased to announce that the AIVC 2022 Conference “Ventilation Challenges in a changing world" is now accepting abstracts & proposals for topical sessions. The Conference will be held on October 5-6, 2022, at the Hilton Hotel, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It will be a joint event combined with the 10th TightVent and the 8th venticool conferences.

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5-6 October 2022, Conference, Rotterdam – 42nd AIVC conference

The 42nd AIVC conference: "Ventilation Challenges in a Changing World" was held on 5-6 October 2022 in Rotterdam, together with the 10th TightVent conference and the 8th venticool conference. There were 142 participants from 22 countries.

The conference consisted of 3 parallel sessions largely devoted to:

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