Venticool

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venticool is an international platform formed in 2012 focusing on ventilative cooling issues, with the overall goal to mobilize the ventilative cooling potential in terms of energy conservation, health, and comfort.[1][2][3]

Within this platform ventilative cooling refers to the use of ventilation strategies to cool indoor spaces.[4] The most common technique is the use of increased ventilation airflow rates but other technologies may be considered as well.[4]

The creation of the platform was triggered by increasing concerns for overheating risks and thermal comfort in low-energy buildings, while ventilative cooling strategies remain poorly considered in building regulations and scarcely well-implemented in practice.[5] These concerns are reinforced in particular by the 2020 objectives of the European Union [6] and the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD).

The platform’s main activities focus on communication, networking and awareness raising. They include the organization of events: conferences, workshops and webinars, as well as the production of publications: papers, reports, guidebooks etc.[7]

venticool & IEA EBC Annex 62

venticool is the key partner in the communication and dissemination activities of the Annex 62 ‘ventilative cooling’ research project of the ‘Energy in Buildings and Communities Programme (EBC)’ of the International Energy Agency (IEA), an international collaborative project on ventilative cooling with a four year working phase (2014–2017).[8] The main aim of Annex 62 is to make ventilative cooling an attractive and energy efficient cooling solution to avoid overheating in both new and renovated buildings.[8]

venticool also cooperates with the IEA-EBC’s Annex 5: “Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (AIVC)”, which aims to provide reliable reference information on research and development in the fields of air infiltration and ventilation.[9]

History

The international platform for ventilative cooling- venticool was inaugurated in October 2012 during the 33rd AIVC Conference in Copenhagen.[10] The platform is facilitated by the International Network for Information on Ventilation and Energy Performance- INIVE EEIG, which is a registered European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG) whose members include building research centres in Europe.[11] Since then, the platform has been financially and/or technically supported by its partners: AGORIA-naventa, ES-SO, VELUX,[12] Wienerberger and WindowMaster.[13]

venticool also collaborates with organizations that hold significant experience and/or are well identified in the field of ventilation and thermal comfort, like AIVC and REHVA.[3]

Target group

The target group of venticool ranges from European, national and regional government policy makers, stakeholders’ organizations, designers, engineers, builders, HVAC installers to research, technical and training centres.[1]

Newsletter

venticool publishes a newsletter twice a year with information on the latest developments on ventilative cooling including policy issues, events, innovative concepts, standardization, case studies and research activities.

Events

Annual Conference. Since 2013, venticool holds a joint annual conference together with the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre and the TightVent Europe platform in September/October in one of the AIVC participating countries, with a track devoted to ventilative cooling.[14][15]

At the 2012 AIVC Conference (the official launch of the platform), the following topical sessions were organized:[16]

At the 2013 conference, the following topical sessions were organised:[17]

At the 2014 conference, the following topical sessions were organised:[18]

Workshops & Webinars. venticool also organizes workshops and webinars focused on specific topics in relevance to ventilative cooling and/or current work developed by the IEA EBC Annex 62.[19][20][21]

External links

References

  1. 1 2 BUILD UP energy solutions for better buildings: "venticool Newsletter 1", October 2012
  2. ↑ European Solar Shading Organization (ES-SO), "venticool the international platform for ventilative cooling", Retrieved October 2014
  3. 1 2 BUILD UP energy solutions for better buildings, "venticool: the international platform for ventilative cooling", September 2014
  4. 1 2 venticool, the international platform for ventilative cooling, "What is ventilative cooling?", Retrieved October 2014
  5. ↑ European Solar Shading Organization (ES-SO), "Position paper for ventilative cooling", Retrieved October 2014
  6. ↑ European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy: "EPBD Recast (Directive 2010/31/EU)- EPBD RECAST APPROVED 19 MAY 2010", 2010
  7. ↑ European Solar Shading Organization (ES-SO), "venticool brochure", Retrieved October 2014
  8. 1 2 International Energy Agency’s Energy in Buildings and Communities Programme, "EBC Annex 62 Ventilative Cooling", Retrieved October 2014
  9. ↑ International Energy Agency’s Energy in Buildings and Communities Programme, "EBC Annual Report 2015", February 2016
  10. ↑ venticool, the international platform for ventilative cooling, " Official launch of the ventilative cooling platform at the Copenhagen conference", venticool newsletter 1, October 2012
  11. ↑ venticool, the international platform for ventilative cooling, "Welcome to venticool", Retrieved October 2014
  12. ↑ VELUX, "Our company our views- Our partners", Retrieved October 2014
  13. ↑ venticool, the international platform for ventilative cooling, "venticool Partners", Retrieved October 2014
  14. ↑ Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre: "September 25–26, 2013, Athens: 34th AIVC- 3rd TightVent- 2nd Cool Roofs’ - 1st venticool conference, 2013
  15. ↑ Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre: "September 24–25, 2014, Poznan: 35th AIVC- 4th TightVent- 2nd venticool conference", 2014
  16. ↑ Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre: "October 10–11, 2012, Copenhagen: 33rd AIVC- 2nd TightVent conference, 2012
  17. ↑ Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre 2013 Conference website, "34th AIVC Conference Final Programme", Retrieved November 2014
  18. ↑ Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre 2014 Conference website, "35th AIVC Conference Final Programme", Retrieved November 2014
  19. ↑ Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre: "March 19–20, 2013, Workshop, Brussels: Ventilative Cooling Need, Challenges and Solution Examples", 2013
  20. ↑ Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre: "September 17, 2014, Workshop, Kingston Lane: Using the cooling potential of ventilation to reduce energy use in buildings", 2014
  21. ↑ BUILD UP energy solutions for better buildings:"BUILD UP Web Seminar | Ventilative cooling: Keep cool and lower peak energy demand", June 6, 2014
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