The TipVent project

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The Tip-Vent project

• Dissemination of results

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The Tip-Vent Project

• EC Joule project JOE3-CT97-0080
• Towards Improved Performances of mechanical
  VENTilation systems
• From 01/02/1998 to 31/07/2000
• Coordinators
• BBRI - Belgium
• ALDES Aéraulique - France

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Partners

• Aldes Aéraulique - France
• BBRI - Belgium
• Bergschenhoek BV - The Netherlands
• BSRIA Ltd - United Kingdom
• Basler Hofmann - Switzerland
• University of Porto - Portugal
• AB JW - Sweden
• TNO Bouw - The Netherlands

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Results of the project

• Source book Towards improved performances of
  mechanical ventilation systems
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The TIP-VENT challenges
• 3 Performances and quality of ventilation systems
• 4 Ventilation requirements
• 5 Energy use due to ventilation
• 6 Ventilation performances in daily practice
• 7 Concepts for achieving improved ventilation
  systems
• 8 Lessons learned from the Tip-vent project
• 9 inovative developments
• 10 References

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Results of the project

• 24 task reports
• Status report Design methods for ventilation
  systems in residential and commercial buildings.
• Guidelines for performance based mechanical
  ventilation systems
• Development of low energy ventilation systems.
• Impact of standards and regulations on the
  performance of ventilation systems.
• The impact of ventilation upon energy consumption
  in buildings.

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Results of the project

• Three innovative products have been developed
  within the framework of the project
• Active noise attenuator
• Set of components for low energy ventilation
  systems
• Booster intake valve for punctual but high
  ventilation needs

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How to disseminate the results ?

• Reports 662 pages / 14 MB (PDF files)
• Different options
• Website with all the reports
• Printed version of all the reports
• Printed version of source book CD-Rom with all
  the reports
• CD-Rom with all the reports

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Website with all the reports

• Advantages
• No printing cost
• No postage cost
• 20 MB website quite cheap (about 40 /month)
• Disadvantages
• Maintenance of website 1 Year ? 5, 10, ?
• File download through modem ?
• How to find the site ?
• Availability of files if no internet connexion is
  available (meeting rooms, ..) ?

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Printed version of all the reports

• Advantages
• Nice publication
• No need of computer to read it
• Disadvantages
• Printing costs High cost
• Postage costs Who will buy it ?
• Cost to stock the books Management of sales ?
• Difficult to travel with it
• Where to keep it in small offices ?
• Save the trees

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Printed version of main report CD

• Advantages
• Nice publication
• No need of computer to read the main report
• CD quite cheap (about 0.5 to 1 )
• Easy to keep the CD (in office, travel, )
• Disadvantages
• Printing costs Need to be sold
• Postage costs Management of sales
• Computer needed

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CD-Rom with all the reports

• Advantages
• Low cost (0.5 to 1 ) No need to sale it
• Low postage costs Just give it
• Easy to keep the CD (in office, travel, )
• Large scale dissemination possible
• Disadvantages
• Computer needed
• No nice book

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The Tip-Vent experience Website

• www.tip-vent.com is no longer available because
  of web hosting cost after the end of the project
• Poor access statistics
• General keywords (Ventilation) in search
  engines lead to major websites (AIVC,
  manufacturers, )
• Specific key-words (tip-vent) are known by a few
  persons
• Full address need to be published in articles
  (along the life of the website)

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The Tip-Vent experience CD-Rom

• 4600 CD-Rom
• Distributed for free
• In Belgium, France, Portugal, Sweden,
  Switzerland, The Netherlands, United Kingdom
• To usual clients of partners
• At conferences, workshops,

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The Tip-Vent experience AIVC-CD

• Tip-Vent results have been published on the
  AIVC-CD n1
• 13500 copies
• Distributed worldwide (CD n1 is free of charge)
• Source book is available on new issues of
  AIVC-CD
• 4000 copies each 3 months

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The Tip-Vent experience Enerbuild CD

• The Source book is available on the Enerbuild CD
• 8500 copies