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One can watch and listen to REHVA expert speakers again with the video recordings of the REHVA Brussels Summit Conference now up on the REHVA YouTube channel. Access all the speaker's presentations materials on the company’s official website. The impact of COVID-19 is still present in everyone’s everyday lives. But what impact has it on the HVAC sector and building operations? Experienced speakers expand on research, good practices and innovations that emerged from this crisis.

  • 0:00:00 - Start of the Conference
  • 0:00:53 - Welcome and opening (Frank Hovorka, REHVA President)
  • 0:05:07 - Buildings and Us: what we learned from COVID-19 and what will change (Lidia Morawska, Director, International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health (WHO CC for Air Quality and Health), Queensland University of Technology)
  • 0:40:11 - HVAC research & technology trends emerging after the COVID-19 pandemic (Jarek Kurnitski, REHVA TRC Chair)
  • 0:57:58 - Safely re-occupy and use buildings during the pandemic (Hywel Davies, Technical Director, CIBSE)
  • 1:12:46 - COVID-19 guidance & case studies for specific space types (Atze Boerstra, REHVA Vice-president)
  • 1:29:18 - HVAC solutions & innovation for safe indoor environment in a pandemic (Tarja Takki-Halttunen, Vice-chair, Halton Group)
  • 1:47:03 - Questions and discussion (Moderator: Atze Boerstra, REHVA Vice-President)

successful implementation

The need for healthy buildings in Europe is a priority, now more than ever and the renovation wave is a major opportunity to answer this call. The Policy Conference brings together high-level representatives from EU institution, think tanks and NGOs, from the “practitioners” side who play a crucial role in its successful implementation.

  • 0:00:00 - Welcome and opening (Frank Hovorka, REHVA President)
  • 0:02:52 - Renovation wave on the Commission’s agenda (Stefan Moser, Head of Unit C4, DG Energy, European Commission)
  • 0:23:25 - Building renovation policies and indoor environmental quality (Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, MEP (S&D), European Parliament)
  • 0:50:48 - Healthy buildings in the national long-term renovation strategies (Oliver Rapf, Executive Director, BPIE)
  • 1:07:42 - Renovation wave on the ground. How to get the job done? (Adrian Joyce, Secretary General, EuroAce)
  • 1:19:32 - Questions and discussion (Moderator: Anita Derjanecz, Managing Director, REHVA)
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