LoginMany simplified models have been developed and are used around the world to estimate the infiltration rate for Energy Performance (EP) calculations, with different levels of accuracy, as described below.
Ventilation Information Papers
Ventilation Information Papers (VIP) are a series of typically short AIVC publications (in most cases 6 to 10 pages) intended for giving a basic knowledge of some aspects related to the air infiltration and/or the ventilation.
Volume content
VIP 46: Building airtightness impact on Energy Performance (EP) calculations | 2023 | English | 18 pp
AIVC's Ventilation Information Paper #45.8 summarizes current knowledge on trends in building and ductwork airtightness in China.
AIVC's Ventilation Information Paper #45.7 summarizes current knowledge on trends in building and ductwork airtightness in Greece.
AIVC's Ventilation Information Paper #45.6 summarizes current knowledge on trends in building and ductwork airtightness in France.
AIVC's Ventilation Information Paper #45.5 summarizes current knowledge on trends in building and ductwork airtightness in Latvia.
AIVC's Ventilation Information Paper #45.4 summarizes current knowledge on trends in building and ductwork airtightness in Belgium.
VIP 45.3: Trends in building and ductwork airtightness in the Czech Republic | 2022 | English | 17 pp
AIVC's Ventilation Information Paper #45.3 summarizes current knowledge on trends in building and ductwork airtightness in the Czech Republic.
AIVC's Ventilation Information Paper #45.2 summarizes current knowledge on trends in building and ductwork airtightness in Spain.
AIVC's Ventilation Information Paper #45.1 summarizes current knowledge on trends in building and ductwork airtightness in Estonia.
AIVC's Ventilation Information Paper #44: Residential Cooker Hoods, summarizes current knowledge on cooking contaminant emissions, its effects on IAQ, and identifies standards for assessing the efficacy of cooker hood (also known as a range hood)
AIVC Technical Note 68 (TN 68) "Residential Ventilation and Health” is one of the outcomes of the work performed under the framework
Worldwide, there is an increasing number of publications related to air cleaning and sales of gas phase air cleaning products.
Building airtightness tests have become very common in several countries, either to comply with minimum requirements of regulations or programmes, or to justify input values in calculation methods.
Ventilation Information Paper no40 "Ductwork airtightness - A review", aims to complement Ventilation Information Paper VIP 01 “Airtightness
VIP 39: A review of performance-based approaches to residential smart ventilation | 2019 | English | 8 pp
Ventilation Information Paper no39: “A review of performance-based approaches to residential smart ventilation” provides an overview of the regulations and standards proposing “performance-based approaches” in five countries to promote the use of
In March 2017, AIVC identified smart ventilation for buildings as a new and important topic to be addressed.
This Ventilation Information Paper analyses both the policy instruments used (regulatory requirements and incentives, specific programme requirements, quality frameworks for testers and builders) and the changes observed in practice in terms of bu
In a recent review of 31 green building certification schemes used around the world, IAQ was found to contribute to only 7.5% of the final score on average.
This report summarises the outcome of the work of the initial working phase of IEA ECB Annex 62 Ventilative Cooling and is based on the findings in the participating countries.
Air supplied by ventilation plants and air conditioning systems carries small particles whose size depends on filtration device efficiency.