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The Federation of European Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Associations (REHVA) has developed a new Dictionary App available for tablets and smart phones. The REHVA Dictionary is a user-friendly tool for HVAC professionals, developed in the last 15 years to have a reliable Dictionary/Glossary of technical terms used in building services.

Annex 62 “Ventilative Cooling” of the IEA Technology Collaboration Programme: Energy in Buildings and Communities, just released three new publications!

The annual report of 2017 of the International Energy Agency’s Energy in Buildings and Communities (IEA-EBC) Programme has just been released. This report presents an overview of progress made by the EBC Programme, including summaries of new, ongoing and recently completed projects. It is consisting of three parts: the Chair's Statement, Project progress reports and practical background information.

The recordings and the slides of our recent webinar:“Ventilative cooling and summer comfort: Freevent project in France” held on the 25th of April, 2018 and jointly organised by the FREEVENT project and venticool in cooperation with the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre, are now available online at: http://aivc.org/resource/ventilative-cooling-and-summer-comfort-freevent....
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The AIVC and the CRC (Cooperative Research Centre) for Low Carbon Living, in collaboration with the Australian Government Department of Energy and the Environment ASHRAE, AIRAH, venticool and UNSW Sydney, presented on March 23 a one day workshop in Sydney on ‘Ventilation for Indoor Air Quality and Cooling’

The seminar aimed  to inform Australian researchers, engineers and scientists about recent developments in the field of ventilation, cooling and air quality technologies.

The presentations of the AIVC workshops held on 19-20 March 2018 in Wellington (NZ) "Towards higher-performing buildings: The role of airtightness and ventilation" and on 23 March 2018 in Sydney (AU) "Ventilation for Indoor Air Quality and Cooling" are now available for download.

Please click on the relevant links below to access the event's presentations and programme (in pdf format) as well as further information on the events:

The March issue of the AIVC newsletter has just been released.

Contents include:

The recordings and the slides of our latest webinar "IAQ sensors for smart ventilation of buildings" held on 6 March, 2018 are now available online at:

http://aivc.org/event/6-march-2018-webinar-iaq-sensors-smart-ventilation-buildings

In March 2017, AIVC identified smart ventilation for buildings as a new and important topic to be addressed. Several actions were defined by AIVC Board about this topic in order to exchange and disseminate information on this topic. A working group of AIVC experts from several countries was created. One of its tasks was to agree on a definition of smart ventilation.

We are now pleased to announce the release of our  Ventilation Information Paper no 38: What is smart ventilation? aiming to present and illustrate this definition of “smart ventilation”.

A proposal for the formation of a new IEA EBC Annex on the topic of Resilient Cooling was presented to the Executive Committee (ExCo) of the International Energy Agency’s Energy in Buildings and Communities programme (IEA EBC) in November 2018. The Annex Concept has been further developed towards a draft Annex Text which will be proposed to the ExCo at its next meeting at Stockholm in June 2018.