International Perspectives on Comfortable, Healthy, and Safe Indoor Environments

Dr. Paula Olsiewski, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, och Dr. Andrew Persily, U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) har ägnat sitt yrkesliv åt utforskandet av de faktorer som avgör kvaliteten på inomhusmiljön. De besöker Chalmers under den 26 april och kommer under en gästföreläsning att ta oss med på vägen från politiska beslut och riktlinjer för utformning till välfungerande byggnader i drift, med särskilt fokus på ventilationsaspekter

Värdar för besöket och gästföreläsningen är Despoina Teli och Lars Ekberg vid avdelningen för installationsteknik, Institutionen för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik.

Program:

• Introduktion och välkommen
  
  
• Using Model Law to Promote Indoor Air Quality
  Dr.Paula Olsiewski, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, USA
  
  The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security has created the MODEL CLEAN INDOOR AIR ACT to be widely used as a template to monitor, regulate, and improve IAQ so people can breathe healthy air. Just as drinking water is made safe through filtration and sanitation measures, indoor air within public buildings can be made safe through filtration, ventilation, and other measures. The MODEL CLEAN INDOOR AIR ACT provides a comprehensive framework for states to create legislation to improve indoor air and protect health. Public health researchers, officials, legislators, and policymakers need to realize how improvements in IAQ are a cost-effective means to save lives and improve the public’s health. 
  
  
• Frågestund
  
  
• Ventilation Requirements in Educational Buildings – How to Know they are Actually Happening
  Andrew Persily, U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA
  
  Providing sufficient quantities of clean ventilation air to school buildings is essential to the health, comfort and learning outcomes of students. School ventilation has become an even more pressing issue in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and in light of other airborne infectious diseases that already exist or may become more prevalent in the future. Ventilation requirements have been part of standards and guidance for many decades, but the rationales supporting these rates has not always been well understood. This presentation will review how ventilation requirements for schools have been developed in the past and how they might evolve in the future. It will also address how to evaluate ventilation performance in school buildings and some of the challenges involved.
  
  
• Frågestund
  
  
• Diskussion
  
  
• Avslutning och fika