Mandating indoor air quality for public buildings: If some countries lead by example, standards may increasingly become normalized

Lidia Morawska (Corresponding author), Joseph Allen, William P. Bahnfleth, Belinda Bennett, Philomena M. Bluyssen, A.C. Boerstra, Giorgio Buonanno, Junji Cao, Stephanie Dancer, Andres Floto, F. Franchimon, Trish Greenhalgh, Charles Haworth, J. Hogeling, Christina Isaxon, Jose L. Jimenez, Amanda Kennedy, Prashant Kumar, Jarek Kurnitski, Yuguo LiMarcel G.L.C. Loomans, Guy Marks, Linsey C. Marr, Livio Mazzarella, Arsen Melikov, Shelly Miller, Donald K. Milton, Jason Monty, Peter Nielsen, Catherine Noakes, Jordan Peccia, Kim Prather, Xavier Querol, Tunga Salthammer, Chandra Sekhar, O. Seppänen, Shin-ichi Tanabe, Julian W. Tang, Raymond Tellier, Kwok Wai Tham, Pawel Wargocki, Aneta Wierzbicka, Maosheng Yao

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People living in urban and industrialized societies, which are expanding globally, spend more than 90% of their time in the indoor environment, breathing indoor air (IA). Despite decades of research and advocacy, most countries do not have legislated indoor air quality (IAQ) performance standards for public spaces that address concentration levels of IA pollutants. Few building codes address operation, maintenance, and retrofitting, and most do not focus on airborne disease transmission. But the COVID-19 pandemic has made all levels of society, from community members to decision-makers, realize the importance of IAQ for human health, well-being, productivity, and learning. We propose that IAQ standards be mandatory for public spaces. Although enforcement of IAQ performance standards in homes is not possible, homes must be designed and equipped so that they could meet the standards.
Originele taal-2Engels
Pagina's (van-tot)1418-1420
Aantal pagina's3
TijdschriftScience
Volume383
Nummer van het tijdschrift6690
DOI's
StatusGepubliceerd - 28 mrt. 2024

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This paperwas supportedbytheAustralian Research Council(ARC) IndustrialTransformation Training Centre(IC220100012) andARCLaureateFellowship (FL220100082).TheEngineeringandPhysicalSciences Research Council (EPSRC) funded the CO-TRACE project (grantEP/W001411/1),UKResearchandInnovation [EPSRC, NaturalEnvironmentResearch Council(NERC),Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)] funded the RECLAIM NetworkPlus project(grantEP/W034034/1),andNERC funded the GreenCities project (grant NE/X002799/1).

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