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.
- Opportunity for pupils to investigate their classroom air quality!
We’re delighted to announce the official launch of SAMHE! Starting the week of 24th April, the SAMHE project will be inviting UK schools to register as a SAMHE school. Schools will… - Leeds City Council Air Quality and Health Workshop
Breathing City investigators joined colleagues at Leeds City Council, UKHSA and the NHS on Tuesday 28th March 2023 for an Air Quality and Health Workshop. The workshop provided a space for… - 2023 Clean Air Networks Conference
The 2023 Clean Air Networks Conference, held at the University of Birmingham 5-6 July 2023, will showcase the networks’ wide ranging activities and identify, as a legacy for the UK Clean… - New interactive infographic: Ventilation matters
Focussing on the role of indoor air quality and ventilation, this interactive addresses key questions on why ventilation is important and what can be done to make a difference to improve… - UKHSA Job opportunity
UKHSA (UK Health Security Agency – formerly Public Health England) are currently recruiting two enthusiastic and competent scientists, with experience of undertaking research, especially on indoor air quality and ventilation modelling… - New research briefing on urban outdoor air quality
The Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology (POST) has published a POSTnote on urban outdoor air quality with contributions from academics in the Clean Air Programme, including Breathing City’s Dr Christina… - Managing infections – don’t forget about the indoor air in your care home
As winter takes hold and energy costs rise, it is tempting to try and keep residents warm and fuel costs down by hunkering down until the weather gets warmer. But keeping… - Building standards failing to deliver healthy ventilation’ – say experts
Building standards are failing to ensure offices, shops, public buildings and homes provide healthy ventilation, say leading experts in a report on air pollution by England’s Chief Medical Officer with contributions from Breathing City academics. The panel… - 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
Deadline extended! Applications to be submitted by 17:00 Friday 26th May 2023 to contact@breathingcity.org Two of the grand challenges faced by architects and engineers this decade is in designing buildings and technology… - Call to engagement and advancement meeting between health professionals and indoor environment researchers
06/03/2023 update: This call is now closed 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… - 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… - CIBSE Student and Graduate Career Networking Day
The CIBSE Young Engineers Network is organising a Student and Graduate Career Networking Day, taking place on 7 October in London from 11:00-15:00. We would like to invite your students to…