Opening presentation TightVent Washington conference April 18 2013

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On April 18-19 2013, the 3rd TightVent (www.tightvent.eu) was held in Washington DC. The topic of this workshop was 'Design, implementation, control and durability: feedback from practice and perspectives'. This opening presentation briefly presents the overall context for this workshop. More information can be found on www.tightvent.eu

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Created in 1979

USA is a memberfrom the start…

Max ShermanLBL

Andy PersilyNIST

Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre

2011: 12 member countries2012: 15 member countries2013: 16…17 member countries

The IEA Information Centre on Energy Efficient Ventilation

Envelope air leakage databases

Philosophy on airtightness requirements

Quality approaches for building airtightness

How tight and insulated ducts should be?

Durability aspects of airtightness

Ventilative cooling

Ventilation needs and health

Steps to improve the quality of residential ventilation systems

AIVC Projects

International workshop on ventilative cooling

BrusselsMarch 19-20 2013

International workshop on quality of ventilation systems

BrusselsMarch 18 2013

Deadline for submission of abstracts: May 1

Richard Karney

Created in 1979

INIVE is operating agent since 2001

Diamond partners

Platinum partners

Associate partners

Gold partners

has given substantial support during the first phase of the platform.

…Building and ductwork

airtightness…

More focusing on knowledgegeneration aspects

More focusing on market implementation

Appropriate and durable airtightness

performance of the whole

stock

Present situation -

most cases poor

airtightness performance

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