The March 2021 issue of the AIVC newsletter has just been released. Specific contents include:

The Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (https://www.aivc.org/) & the IEA EBC Annex 86 “Energy Efficient Indoor Air Quality Management in Residential Buildings” (https://annex86.iea-ebc.org/) are organizing a workshop consisting of a series of four webinars on:

The Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (https://www.aivc.org/) and the IEA EBC Annex 86 “Energy Efficient Indoor Air Quality Management in Residential Buildings” (https://annex86.iea-ebc.org/) are organizing the webinar IAQ and Ventilation Metrics to be held on April 8th, 2021 at 09:00-10:30 CET. The webinar will discuss the road towards a robust comprehensive IAQ metric for the assessment of the performance of ventilation.

As already announced in the November issue of the AIVC newsletter, the AIVC board decided to start a project to collect, discuss and disseminate information about COVID‐19 in relation to ventilation and airtightness. A working group was created to define the activities and outputs of the project with the title ‘Ventilation, airtightness and COVID‐19’. 

The Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (https://www.aivc.org/) and the IEA EBC Annex 86 “Energy Efficient Indoor Air Quality Management in Residential Buildings” (https://annex86.iea-ebc.org/) are organizing the webinar Building ventilation: How does it affect SARS-CoV-2 transmission? to be held on April 1^st, 2021 at 17:00-18:30 CET. The webinar will address the potential mitigating role of building ventilation in the

The recordings and the slides of the recent AIVC-TightVent webinar: “Building airtightness improvements of the building stock- Analysis of European databases” held on January 19th, 2021, are now available online at:  https://inive.org/event/19-january-2021-webinar-building-airtightness-improvements-building-stock-analysis-european

TightVent Europe (http://www.tightvent.eu/) and the Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (http://www.aivc.org/) are organizing the webinar "Building airtightness improvements of the building stock - Analysis of European databases" to be held on Tuesday January 19th, 2021 at 10:00-11:15 (CET).  The webinar aims at presenting three major European databases (in the UK, Flanders and France) and also at comparing their structures and their measurement data acquisition

The recordings and the slides of the recent AIVC webinar: “COVID-19 Ventilation related guidance by ASHRAE and REHVA” held on November 20th 2020, are now available online at https://www.inive.org/event/20-november-2020-webinar-covid-19-ventilation-related-guidance-ashrae-and-rehva