The Future Urban Ventilation Network are developing a technical framework to enable a new integrated health evidenced approach to urban building design and technology innovation – The Breathing City.
We are creating a strategy for a new holistic approach considering coupled indoor-outdoor flows in the context of current and future air quality challenges together with their impacts on thermal comfort, noise and energy use.
We bring together researchers, practitioners and policy makers to understand technical and practice challenges, scope this new approach and develop a programme of research and impact activities that are needed to make it a reality.
- Outcomes from the HEMAC-FUVN policy workshop in Westminster
On Thursday 30th September 2021, leading ventilation experts including Prof. Tim Sharpe, Prof. Cath Noakes and Dr. Henry Burridge of Breathing City attended a policy workshop in Westminster to discuss the… - New publication on predictive and retrospective modelling of airborne infection risk using monitored carbon dioxide
Breathing City’s Dr. Henry Burridge, Prof. Cath Noakes and Prof. Paul Linden have recently published “Predictive and retrospective modelling of airborne infection risk using monitored carbon dioxide“ To better the understanding… - Success Story: Improving ventilation to tackle COVID-19 in Scotland!
Breathing City’s Professor Tim Sharpe from the University of Strathclyde chaired an expert advice group who unanimously recommended that businesses should be supported to improve ventilation. On 28th September 2021 it… - Repository Survey: Drafting a Breathing City open repository
Breathing City’s Open Repository team have published a new survey to collect comments and suggestions for the network’s draft Open Repository. We have started designing a repository by interacting with network… - Theme one workshop: Perspectives on ventilation and air quality modelling
We are developing a technical framework to enable a new integrated health evidenced approach to urban building design and technology innovation. Theme one of our network, focuses on mechanisms for ingress and… - Two PhD studentship opportunities with Professor Helen ApSimon from Imperial College
We have been made aware of two PhD studentship opportunities titled ‘Synergies between climate measures and air quality strategies‘ and ‘Effects of future agricultural scenarios on air quality and ecosystem protection‘… - Four new projects funded by the Breathing City network
Four new projects have been funded by the Breathing City network. Researchers have received a share of £20,000 to better understand how indoor air quality affects occupant health, how air quality… - Three new projects funded by UKRI’s Clean Air Strategic Priorities Fund
The UKRI have announced three new research projects that will investigate how air pollutants in indoor spaces can adversely affect the health of the people inhabiting them. The indoor spaces being… - New RAEng report highlights need to improve ventilation guidance as Covid-19 restrictions lift in England
Leading engineers, including Breathing City PI Prof. Cath Noakes, say the importance of ventilation in the built environment is too often neglected, and have highlighted how the Covid-19 pandemic has emphasised…