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.
- Updates from our funded pilot studies
The projects funded by the Breathing City network have shared updates on their progress. Researchers received approximately £5,000 each to better understand how indoor air quality affects occupant health, how air… - The Future Urban Ventilation Network Healthy Building Competition
Two of the grand challenges faced by architects and engineers this decade is in designing buildings and technology solutions that create healthy indoor environments and meet net zero targets. This competition… - Call to engagement and advancement meeting between health professionals and indoor environment researchers
Call to action: To support the efforts described below, and develop research to generate the required knowledge, we intend to develop, and/or support, programmes which seeks to take steps towards linking… - World Ventil8 Day – Breathing City Celebrate Ventilate!
Join the Breathing City network and a panel of enthusiastic ventilation experts to celebrate unique ventilation projects! FUVN are hosting a special World Ventil8 Day event to celebrate unique or unusual… - Inaugural World Ventilation Day 8th November!
Ventilating and cleaning the air in buildings is a crucial part of enabling health and wellbeing of people. But it is so often ignored or poorly understood – and we usually… - Understanding air quality for health in different environments
On 22 September 2022 the Breathing City hosting a half day event to explore indoor air quality for health with a particular focus on “Understanding AQ for health in different environments”… - Event report: Understanding IAQ for healthy buildings in a net zero world
On 28th September 2022, Breathing City (FUVN), TAPAS and ICP-ERG jointly hosted an in-person event in White City Campus, Imperial College London, which engaged discussions from academia, industry, and public policy… - Open repository now live!
We have designed a repository by interacting with network members and responding to the network’s recent activities. We have considered which information is most sought after and are looking at other… - Festival of the Mind
Breathing City’s Dr Abigail Hathway from the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering at the University of Sheffield has worked with artist Sian Williams to create a short video about ventilation…