Venticool

Venticool is an international platform formed in 2012¹ focusing on ventilative cooling issues, with the overall goal to "boost awareness, communication, networking and steering research and development efforts in the field" . In 2020, venticool's focus was broadened towards resilient ventilative cooling. According to Annex 80 ‘Resilient Cooling of Buildings’ research project of the ‘Energy in Buildings and Communities Programme (EBC)’ of the International Energy Agency (IEA), the resilience of a building is described as the “ability of the building to withstand disruptions caused by extreme weather events, man-made disasters, power failure, change in use and atypical conditions; and to maintain capacity to adapt, learn and transform”. venticool supports better guidance, to appropriately implement in practice and enable adequate credit for resilient ventilative cooling strategies in national and international building regulations. The platform's main activities include the organization of events: conferences, workshops and webinars, as well as the production of publications: papers, reports, guidebooks etc.

Venticool is an international platform formed in 2012 focusing on ventilative cooling issues, with the overall goal to "boost awareness, communication, networking and steering research and development efforts in the field" . In 2020, venticool's focus was broadened towards resilient ventilative cooling. According to Annex 80 ‘Resilient Cooling of Buildings’ research project of the ‘Energy in Buildings and Communities Programme (EBC)’ of the International Energy Agency (IEA), the resilience of a building is described as the “ability of the building to withstand disruptions caused by extreme weather events, man-made disasters, power failure, change in use and atypical conditions; and to maintain capacity to adapt, learn and transform”. venticool supports better guidance, to appropriately implement in practice and enable adequate credit for resilient ventilative cooling strategies in national and international building regulations. The platform's main activities include the organization of events: conferences, workshops and webinars, as well as the production of publications: papers, reports, guidebooks etc. ==Newsletter== venticool publishes a newsletter twice a year with information on the latest developments on resilient 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 (resilient) ventilative cooling. At the 2012 AIVC Conference (the official launch of the platform), the following topical sessions were organized: International initiatives on ventilative cooling Ventilative cooling in residences Advanced ventilative cooling concepts in Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings Ventilative cooling in building regulations At the 2013 conference, the following topical sessions were organised: Ventilative cooling in standards and regulations - Challenges for Annex 62 Active House – Buildings combining comfort, energy and sustainability At the 2014 conference, the following topical sessions were organised: Ventilative cooling and Annex 62 Comfort in sustainable buildings At the 2015 conference, the following topical sessions were organised: Ventilative cooling and Annex 62 (Part 1) Ventilative cooling and Annex 62 (Part 2) At the 2017 conference, the following topical sessions were organized: IEA-EBC Annex 62: Ventilative Cooling: Lessons learnt from case-studies IEA-EBC Annex 62: Ventilative Cooling: Strategies and components At the 2018 conference, the following topical sessions were organized: IEA-EBC Annex 62: Ventilative Cooling Improving the efficiency of ventilative cooling At the 2019 conference, the following topical sessions were organized: Better implementation of ventilative cooling in national building standards, legislation and compliance tools EBC Annex 80- Resilient Cooling At the 2022 conference, the following topical sessions were organized: Resilient Cooling in a Changing Climate Ventilative cooling to reduce overheating in buildings in ventilation related standards and legislation in the context of well-being, sustainability and energy New IEA EBC Annex 87 on Personalized Environmental Control Systems (PECS) Workshops & Webinars. venticool also organizes workshops and webinars focused on specific topics in relevance to (resilient) ventilative cooling and/or current work developed by the IEA EBC Annex 80. ==External links== venticool website ==References==

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