IAQVEC

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IAQVEC
Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings
Formation1992;32 years ago (1992) [1]
Founded at Montreal, Canada
Type Scientific society, Nonprofit
Legal statusNot-for-profit organization
Region
Worldwide
MethodsConferences, Publications
President
Ooka Ryozo Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Website www.iaqvec.org

The IAQVEC (Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings) is an international scientific organisation whose mission is to provide technical support, guidance and technical publications to industry and research organizations for the optimization of indoor air quality, ventilation technology and energy conservation through annual conferences and workshops. [2] The conferences cover a wide range of key research areas with the goal of simultaneously improving indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and energy efficiency enhancing wellbeing and sustainability. The association was established in 2016. [3] [4]

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History

Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings (IAQVEC) was founded by Fariborz Haghighat and Francis Allard in 1992. [5] [1] [6] [7] The first IAQVEC conference was held October 7-9, 1992 at the 5th International Jacques Cartier Conference in Montreal, and an annual meeting has been held since 1992. [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]

Past and future IAQVEC conferences include:

YearLocationConference Chairperson (s)
2026 Los Angeles, United States TBA
2023 Tokyo, JapanProf. Ryozo Ooka [15]
2019 Bari, ItalyProf. Umberto Berardi [16]
2016 Seoul, South KoreaProf. Kwang Woo Kim [17]
2013 Prague, Czech RepublicProf. Karel Kabele [18] [19]
2010 Syracuse, New York, United StatesProf. Jianshun Zhang [20]
2007 Sendai, JapanProf. Hiroshi Yoshino [12]
2004 Toronto, CanadaProf. Sherif Barackat [14] [21]
2001 Hunan, ChinaProf. G. Zhang and Prof. Chow [13]
1998 Lyon, FranceProf. Gerard Guarracino [22]
1995 Montreal, CanadaProf. Fariborz Haghighat [9]
1992 Montreal, CanadaProf. Fariborz Haghighat and Prof. Francis Allard [6]

Objectives

The objectives of the association are: [23]

  1. To promote scientific, technological and technical advances related to IAQVEC fields at the international level
  2. To develop and disseminate knowledge and information related to IAQVEC
  3. To promote and organize IAQVEC conferences every three years. [24] [15] [25]

See also

Related Research Articles

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