About HVI

Founded in 1955, HVI today represents a wide range of home ventilating products manufactured by companies in the United States, Canada, Asia, and Europe, producing the majority of the residential ventilation products sold in North America including:

  • Bathroom fans
  • Exterior mounted fans
  • Kitchen rangehoods
  • Balanced ventilators
  • Downdraft kitchen fans
  • Whole house cooling fans
  • Inline fans
  • Powered attic ventilators
  • Heat/energy recovery ventilators
  • Passive fresh air inlets
  • Single and multi-port exhaust fans
  • Static ventilation devices for attics and crawl spaces

The Certified Rating Programs of HVI were created to provide a fair and credible method of comparing ventilation performance of similar products. Not only are products Certified, but a random verification program ensures that those products still meet their original performance. All testing for certification and verification is performed by laboratories independent of any manufacturer. The test standards utilized for testing are, in most cases, developed by HVI using national and international consensus methods. In a few cases test standards previously developed by other agencies are recognized and adopted by HVI. A complete list of Certified Products, Manufacturers and Products can be found in the HVI Certified Product Directory on this website.

HVI Certification has been accepted and recognized as the method of performance assurance by many agencies some of which are:

  • US Department of Housing and Urban Development
  • US Department of Energy - Bonneville Power Administrationw National Building Code of Canada
  • R2000 Housing Program - Canada
  • Washington State Building Code
  • Minnesota State Building Code
  • Building Officials and Code Administrators International (BOCA)
  • International Conference of Building Officials (ICBO)
  • National Electrical Manufacturers Association.

For further information contact HVI at:
HVI - Home Ventilating Institute
1000 N Rand Rd.
Suite 214
Wauconda, IL 60084

847-526-2010 phone
847-256-3993 fax
hvi@hvi.org