Air quality

1. Overview of Indoor Air Quality: What is Indoor Air Quality? Indoor air quality (IAQ) refers to the quality of the air inside buildings as represented by concentrations of pollutants and thermal conditions that affect the health, comfort and performance of occupants. Other factors affecting occupants, such as light and noise, are important indoor environmental quality considerations. Why is IAQ Important to Building Managers? Buildings exist to protect people from the elements and to otherwise

Management of Indoors Air Quality in schools: Schools’ children do spend in their classrooms almost double the time they do in their rooms at homes (WHO, 2007). This gives the extra importance of having good indoor air quality at schools which helps to pertain an improved learning environment, increased productivity and better health for students and school staff. Having poor indoor air qualities would have severe consequences on health, behaviors, perception, development and learning disabilities

China is one of the countries with the poorest air quality. Moreover, Eastern China has an average air quality index (AQI) of 180, and some locations like Jiangbei, Songyuan have an AQI rating of over 500 (World Air Quality, 2017). Typically, on the AQI, a rating of above 150 is unhealthy, where individuals may experience mild to serious health effects from poor air quality (World Air Quality, 2017). Additionally, an AQI of above 200 is considered hazardous, which leads to the entire population experiencing

Indoor Air Quality and Environmental Health Indoor air quality (IAQ) refers only to the quality of the ambient air in an interior environment. On average, people spend well over half of their time inside, and research has shown that indoor air in buildings can be more contaminated than outdoor air. The majority of people that work in non-industrial buildings such as offices, schools, and hospitals are exposed daily to poor IAQ. Indoor air pollution (IAP) continually ranks among the top five environmental

Statistics indicate that more than four people in five who live in urban areas are negatively affected regarding the standard of the quality of air that the World Health Organization recommends as safe for breathing by human beings (WHO, 2016). These means that roughly all urban regions of the world are affected. However, there are those that suffer the most and these include the low income cities especially found in the developing countries. WHO analytics covers more than 3000 cities in 103 countries

Air is vital to our planet, life is simply impossible without it. Air pollution “refers to the contamination of the air, irrespective of indoors or outside. A physical, biological or chemical alteration to the air in the atmosphere can be termed as pollution. It occurs when any harmful gases, dust, smoke enters into the atmosphere and makes it difficult for plants, animals and humans to survive as the air becomes dirty.” (Jacobson, 2017) Air pollution has introduced countless negative effects to

Tampa is related to many air quality issues in the state. Tampa is a continuously growing city, as people relocate to the area, many things must happen to accommodate the growth in population. Most of which contributes to of the air quality standards in our area because of the need for additional roads, and numerous new housing developments to be built, increasing the amount of power plants to power the many new houses. To continue, these contribute to massive air quality issues for Tampa. The number

Publishing Guest editorial Indoor air pollution: a poorly recognised hazard Kin Bong Hubert Lam BSc MPhil PhD Lecturer in Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology Om P Kurmi BSc MSc Research Fellow Jon G Ayres BSc MBBS MD FRCP FRCPE FFOM FRCPSG Professor of Environmental and Respiratory Medicine Institute of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK Air is essential for life, and its quality has long been recognised as being

control efforts when combating air pollution. The EPA denotes the criteria pollutants as carbon monoxide, lead, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, particulate matter, and sulfur dioxide, as such, monitoring and control efforts must focus on these criteria pollutants (United States Environmental Protection Agency, 2017). Subsequently, sensors allow for real-time monitoring of not only these pollutants but also these sensors provide vital statistics related to natural and manmade quality standards, trends, and hazardous

1. Introduction 1.1. Background The quality of air is a very important factor in projecting, representing and monitoring the status of environment and health of the Great London. It is known that the Great London has a name of ‘foggy city’ since the severe air pollution event during December 1952 (?). Even though the air status has been improved in a large degree in the recent years, atmospheric pollutant monitoring should be never ignored, and should advance the measured technology and data model