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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
