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.
- Coupled indoor-outdoor environments for better indoor air quality
We are excited to announce we will be holding an in-person and online event at Imperial College London City and Guilds Building on 5th July 2024 from 10am to 2:30pm. The… - CISM summer school 10-14 June 2024: Fluid Mechanics of Buildings for Energy, Health and Well-being
Written by Dr Kat Roberts (Summer School Participant) On 10-14th June 2024, early career researchers from around the globe travelled to Udine in northern Italy, for an intense week-long summer school… - Research paper published on ‘Ventilation Provision and Use in Homes in Great Britain: A National Survey’
We are delighted to draw your attention to a recently published paper authored by Cairan Van Rooyen (University College London) and Tim Sharpe (University of Strathclyde) detailing the findings from a national survey on… - 2023 UKHSA Air Quality and Public Health Stakeholder Meeting
On 6th December UKHSA held the 2023 UKHSA Air Quality and Public Health Stakeholder Meeting in the city of Manchester. The meeting was well attended by researchers, policy makers, industry partners… - UKHSA Air Quality and Public Health Research Review Meeting 2023
On 5th December 2023 UKHSA held the 2023 UKHSA Air Quality and Public Health Research Review Meeting in the city of Manchester. The meeting was well attended by researchers, policy makers,… - CISM Summer School
Fluid Mechanics of Buildings for Energy, Health and Well-being Applications are now open to sign-up to, what promises to be, an amazing summer school on buildings for energy, health, and well-being… - Ventilation Guidance for Small Businesses
On Wednesday 4th October Dr Abigail Hathway lead a webinar to disseminate recently developed ventilation guidance for small businesses to environmental health teams across the U.K. (Talk available here: https://youtu.be/1F0Su79DN2w). The guidance was… - UKHSA conference opens abstract submission
The Air Quality and Public Health team at the UK Health Security Agency are pleased to announce two annual air quality events, to be held in person in Manchester. 2023 UKHSA Annual UK… - Events through Autumn 2023
There are a number of exciting events associated with indoor and outdoor air, public health and building design in the coming months! We’ve provided a round up for the next few… - Indoor Air Quality Observatory Stakeholder Engagement Workshop
On 12 May 2023, the Future Urban Ventilation Network (FUVN) and the Tackling Air Pollution At School Network (TAPAS) held an online facilitated workshop (hosted by The Collective) with key stakeholders… - Health Effects of Building Ventilation Workshop
On Monday July 17 2023 our theme 2 leads, Henry Burridge and Abigail Hathway, hosted a workshop titled ‘Health Effects of Building Ventilation’ in Westminster, London. The workshop brought together building and… - Government inquiry into heat resilience and sustainable cooling – including ventilation
The Environmental Audit Committee is undertaking a short inquiry into Heat resilience and sustainable cooling. It will look at the relationship between heat and health; examine the adequacy of current Government policies… - First WHO Europe Indoor Air Conference
The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the importance of ventilation to mitigate the transmission of respiratory disease.On 20th September, in Bern Switzerland, and online, The World Health Organisation are hosting a conference to… - Clean Air Networks meet for the first time in Birmingham
On 5-6 July over 200 air quality researchers, policy makers, industry partners and civic sector groups who work across the atmospheric, health, social and building science disciplines met at the University… - Partner event highlight: RECLAIM Network Plus
11 September 2023, 10am – 4pm RECLAIM Network Plus are hosting a conference taking place at the University of Surrey. The event will provide an opportunity to network with city officials,… - EAC inquiry on air quality: written evidence published
The Environmental Audit Committee is undertaking a short inquiry to establish the adequacy of current measures to promote indoor and outdoor air quality, and assess whether air quality targets are sufficient… - Research briefing being prepared on indoor air quality
The Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology (POST) is working on a new POSTnote on indoor air quality. Indoor air quality can be affected by a range of factors, including infiltrations… - Competition winners announced!
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…