The handbook: “Building Thermography-including blower door and heat flux meter” approaches the technique both from a theoretical and practical point of view. It includes one chapter dedicated to the technical characteristics of thermal cameras and software, two chapters dedicated to blower … Continue reading →
Around 150 participants attended the joint 35th AIVC –4th TightVent -2nd venticool conference held in Poznan, Poland September 24-25, 2014. The programme consisted of 3 parallel tracks with contributions from 27 countries and international organizations. Over 100 presentations were given … Continue reading →
Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have investigated the accuracy of using fan pressurization methods to determine leakage between adjacent zones, based on field measurements and simulations and comparing the uncertainty for the different measurements and calculation methods. The study … Continue reading →
The new French regulation (RT 2012, fully operational since January 2013) requires that the building airtightness of all new residential buildings be justified. This has led to over 100 000 tests performed every year, and of course, pressure on designers … Continue reading →
In September 2012, TightVent Europe set up the TightVent Airtightness Associations Committee (TAAC committee) aiming to bring together airtightness testers associations with the primary goal to promote reliable testing and reporting procedures. Since then, the committee has met nine times … Continue reading →
The Flemish, Brussels and Walloon regions of Belgium have introduced the airtightness of buildings determined by fan pressurization tests in their regional Energy Performance (EP) regulations. Airtightness testing is not mandatory; however, when using the result of an airtightness test … Continue reading →
The international workshop on “Ventilation and Airtightness in Buildings : Voluntary and Regulatory Frameworks to Improve Quality and Compliance” will be held in Lund, Sweden on March 16-17, 2015. One topic of specific attention will be schemes implemented in various countries to … Continue reading →
The seventh issue of the TightVent newsletter is now available for download! Contents include: Foreword Recent Belgian developments on quality frameworks for airtightness 35th AIVC- 4th TightVent Conference Updates Accuracy of multi zone air leakage measurements September 23-24, 2015: 36th … Continue reading →
Over the past few years, there has been an increasing number of airtightness tests performed in Europe either for specific high-performance buildings programmes or for a wide range of buildings in regulatory contexts. This has led to the development of … Continue reading →
The 36th AIVC conference: ‘Effective ventilation in high performance buildings’ will be held in the city of Madrid, Spain together with the 5th TightVent and the 3rd venticool conferences in September 23-24, 2015. It will be a major international event in 2015 focusing … Continue reading →
