On June 9, the executive committee of the IEA Technical Collaboration Programme Buildings and Communities (EBC TCP), previously called the implementing agreement on buildings and Communities, approved a new extension period for the AIVC for the period 2017 till 2021, i.e. a 5 years extension.

During this new period, no radical changes in the overall operation of the AIVC is foreseen but, of course, there will be an evolution in the priorities for the AIVC.

8 specific topics of interest have been identified, i.e.:

Ventilation and airtightness in relation to:

The 2nd QUALICHeCK Workshop will be held in Athens, Greece, on 9-10 March 2016, and will focus on sustainable summer comfort technologies. Within the context of compliance and quality, topics to be covered include solar control, developments in cooling technologies and potential for advanced cooling, status on ventilative cooling, cool roofs and more. In addition, summer comfort will be examined from the perspectives of energy, climate change and energy poverty.

The abstract submission of the 36th AIVC Conference is now open.

Deadline for Abstract submission is March 27, 2015

Registration information will follow soon so stay tuned.

Please visit the conference website at:  http://www.aivc.org/event/23-24-september-2015-conference-madrid-36th-aivc-conference

The 35th AIVC conference 'Ventilation and airtightness in transforming the building stock to high performance' will be held in Poznan, Poland, 24-25 September, 2014 in conjunction with the 2nd venticool conference and the 4th TightVent conference. Best papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of the “International Journal of Ventilation”.

We are pleased to present you the new AIVC website. Since 2001, the AIVC website had the same look and feel and we thought it was time for a fundamental change. We hope that this new website will please you.

In addition to the new look and feel, some of the major changes are: