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

4. Created in 1979
USA is a member
from the start…
Max Sherman
LBL
Andy Persily
NIST
Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre

5. 2011: 12 member countries
2012: 15 member countries
2013: 16…17 member countries
The IEA Information Centre on Energy Efficient Ventilation

6. 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

9. International workshop
on ventilative cooling
Brussels
March 19-20 2013
International workshop on
quality of ventilation systems
Brussels
March 18 2013

10. Deadline for submission of abstracts: May 1

11. Richard Karney

15. Created in 1979
INIVE is operating agent since 2001

20. Diamond partners
Platinum partners
Associate partners
Gold partners
has given substantial support during the first phase of the platform.

21. More focusing on knowledge
generation aspects
More focusing on
market implementation

22. Appropriate
and durable
airtightness
performance
of the whole
stock
Present
situation -
most cases
poor
airtightness
performance