Webinar: building the evidence to improve ventilation

The focus of World Ventil8 Day this year was “Enabling Action”. On this theme, the Future Urban Ventilation Network ran a webinar focused on practical learning from research studies around indoor air and ventilation, and how to enable real-world intervention.

Speakers focused on studies from a range of settings including schools, homes, businesses and hospitals. A panel discussion focused on opportunities and challenges in enabling change.

SEI’s Sarah West and Sam Wood from Imperial College London jointly represented our collaborative citizen science research project SAMHE (Schools’ Air quality Monitoring for Health and Education).

Speakers

• Dr Sam Wood, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London
• Dr Abigail Hathway, School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Sheffield
• Professor Tim Sharpe, Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde
• Dr Ben Roberts, School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Loughborough University
• Dr Matt Butler, Consultant Physician, Cambridge University Hospitals

Panel

• Professor Catherine Noakes, School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds (Chair)
• Professor Sarah West, Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York
• Mr Matthew Clark, Programme Manager for Air Quality, Hertfordshire County Council
  SAMHE is collaborating with Hertfordshire County Council to evaluate the impact of installed HEPA (high-efficiency particulate air) filters on air quality in primary schools. 
• Dr Douglas Booker, School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds
• Professor Malcolm Cook, School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Loughborough University
• Kate de Selincourt, Health and Wellbeing Associate, Passivhaus Trust.