Venticool
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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" .[1] In 2020, venticool's focus was broadened towards resilient ventilative cooling.[2]
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”.[3]
venticool supports better guidance, to appropriately implement in practice and enable adequate credit for resilient ventilative cooling strategies in national and international building regulations.[2][4]
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.[2]
The international platform for ventilative cooling- venticool was inaugurated in October 2012 during the 33rd AIVC Conference in Copenhagen.[5] The platform is facilitated by the International Network for Information on Ventilation and Energy Performance- INIVE EEIG, which is a registered European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG) whose members include building research centres in Europe.[4] Since then, the platform has been financially and/or technically supported by its partners: AGORIA-naventa, Reynaers Aluminium, VELUX [6] and WindowMaster.[7]
Collaborations
venticool also collaborates with organizations that hold significant experience and/or are well identified in the field of ventilation and thermal comfort, such as the IEA-EBC's Annex 5: AIVC, which aims to provide reliable reference information on research and development in the fields of air infiltration and ventilation, the Active House Alliance, CIBSE nvg, REHVA,[4] EuroWindoor AISBL and others.[7]
venticool was the key partner in the communication and dissemination activities of the Annex 62 ‘ventilative cooling’ research project of the ‘Energy in Buildings and Communities Programme (EBC)’ of the International Energy Agency (IEA), an international collaborative project on ventilative cooling with a four-year working phase (2014–2018).[8] The main aim of Annex 62 was to make ventilative cooling an attractive and energy efficient cooling solution to avoid overheating in both new and renovated buildings.[8]
Currently, venticool is the main dissemination partner of IEA-EBC “Annex 80 Resilient Cooling of Buildings” which runs from 2018 to 2023, with the main objective to “support a rapid transition to an environment where resilient low energy and low carbon cooling systems are the mainstream and preferred solutions for cooling and overheating issues in buildings”.[3]
venticool is also dissemination partner of IEA-EBC "Annex 87 Energy and Indoor Environmental Quality Performance of Personalised Environmental Control Systems (PECS) running from 2021 to 2026 aiming to “establish design criteria and operation guidelines for PECS and to quantify the benefits regarding health, comfort and energy performance”.[9]
Target group
The target group of venticool ranges from European, national and regional government policy makers, stakeholders’ organizations, designers, consultants, builders, building owners, HVAC installers to research and technical centres.[10]
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.[11]