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 practical challenges, scope this new approach and develop a programme of research and impact activities that are needed to make it a reality.
- Funding Call: SAQN Proof of Concept Awards
Deadline: 4 March 2022 SAQN are looking for innovative projects that either build on the previous work undertaken by SAQN Scoping Studies or that pursue new research applying STFC capabilities to… - COP26, Ventilation and Air Quality
Among the buzz of COP26 in Glasgow, one of the key messages from our community this month has been to include ventilation in net-zero building design. The impact of built environments… - Scottish Parliament’s COVID-19 Recovery Committee receive evidence from Breathing City investigators
On Thursday 4th November 2021, Scottish Parliament’s COVID-19 Recovery Committee received evidence from Breathing City’s Professor Cath Noakes and Professor Tim Sharpe, along with Dr Hywel Davies (Chartered Institution of Building… - 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‘…