REHVA Journal’s February 2026 Edition Features Papers from the AIVC 2025 Conference!

The February 2026 edition of the REHVA Journal has been released, featuring the theme "Rising to New Challenges: Connecting IEQ to a Sustainable Future".

The issue includes, among other articles, selected contributions from the 45th AIVC conference and ASHRAE 2025 IEQ conference held on September 24-26, 2025, in Montreal, Canada together with the 13th TightVent and the 11th venticool conferences.

Featured articles include:

• (Editorial) Rising to New Challenges: Connecting IEQ to a Sustainable Future – Arnold Janssens (AIVC Operating Agent; Ghent University; INIVE, Belgium)
• (Dis)comfort and Health-Induced Stress: The Need for Unravelling Their Effects – Philomena Bluyssen (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
• Why Thermal Comfort Is Elusive: The Role of Socio-Cultural Factors – Marcel Harmon & Stuart Shell (BranchPattern, USA)
• Indoor Heat-Related Harm in Social Housing – Giobertti Morantes, Akshit Gupta, Giulia Paoletti, Roberto Lollini & Francesco Babich (EURAC Research, Italy)
• Monetary Costs of Office Air Contaminants – Giobertti Morantes, Francesco Babich & Roberto Lollini (EURAC Research, Italy); Max Sherman & Benjamin Jones (University of Nottingham, UK); Constanza Molina (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile)
• Performance-Based Evaluation of Residential Ventilation Systems – Zohreh Kiani & Marc Abadie (University of La Rochelle, France); Ali Nour Eddine (Eurovent Certification, France)
• IAQ Assessment Index for Smart Ventilation Systems – Benoit Golaz, Mirela Robitu & Camille Lefèbvre (Cetiat, France)
• Unified Metric for Speech Privacy in Open and Closed Office Environments – Rewan Toubar & Joonhee Lee (Concordia University, Canada); Roderick Mackenzie (Soft dB, Canada)
• How Reliable Are Blower Door Measurements? – Martin Prignon (Buildwise, Belgium); Ben Roberts (Loughborough University, UK); Liesje Van Gelder & Maarten De Strycker (BCCA, Belgium); Jiri Novak (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)
• Comparison Between Asset Rating Design Assumptions and Measured Internal Temperatures for Homes with Heat Pumps: Observations from Ireland – James Pittam, Paul D. O’Sullivan, Leon Domoney & Adam C. O’Donovan (Munster Technological University, Ireland); Oliver Kinnane & Shane Colclough (University College Dublin, Ireland)
• Residential Retrofitting: Integrated Building Performance Evaluation – Sahil Ali Khan, Richard O’Hegarty, Donal Finn, Shane Colclough, Donal Lennon & Oliver Kinnane (University College Dublin, Ireland); Adam C. O’Donovan, Leon Domoney & Paul D. O’Sullivan (Munster Technological University, Ireland)

You can read and freely download the full issue here.