EVIA President Pierre Cruveillé participated in the tenth REHVA Brussels Summit as a panellist

📅 On 19 November, EVIA President Pierre Cruveillé participated in the tenth REHVA Brussels Summit as a panellist in the roundtable discussion “Making European Building Stock Healthier and More Efficient”.

🏡 Mechanical ventilation is instrumental in guaranteeing sufficient air renewal to protect occupants’ health with low indoor pollutant concentrations and appropriate humidity levels. It does so limiting energy losses and therefore optimising the heating and cooling needs of buildings.

🌫 EVIA highlighted that the European Commission’s guidelines for the member states on the transposition of the revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) shall include the specification of mechanical ventilation air flow rates as one of the parameters necessary to achieve an optimal indoor environmental quality.

🏙 As of today, several countries, including Germany, do not have such compulsory requirements in their building regulation and for those which have, the values can be very different from one country to the other.

🔵 The new EPBD consists in a significant step forward to make all European buildings healthier and more energy efficient. This now has to be appropriately reflected in the member states’ regulatory framework. The content of the transposition guidelines will be key in this regard.

Summit link 👉 https://www.rehva.eu/events/details/rehva-10th-brussels-summit