Breathe easy – engineering air quality solutions now

Overview programme

09:00 Registration & networking

09:30 Chair’s welcome Paddy Conaghan, CIBSE Vice-President

09:40 Every breath we take: the lifelong impact of air pollution Prof Patrick Saunders, Faculty of Public Health

10:00 BUCCANEER: Birmingham Urban Climate Change Adaptation with Neighbourhood Estimates of Environmental Risk Prof John Thornes, University of Birmingham

10:10 How environmental engineering, design of buildings and operation can provide healthier indoor environments Dr Marcella Ucci, L ecturer in Environmental and Healthy Buildings, UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering & Chair of the UK Indoor Environments Group (UKIEG)

10:20 Interdependencies between housing, energy and wellbeing Clive Shrubsole, Research Associate (Healthy Buildings), UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering

10:30 Building regulations and standards related to air quality Dr Julie Godefroy, Sustainability consultant

10:40 Q&A

10:45 Coffee & tea break

Hard and green engineering solutions to tackle poor air quality in our homes, hospitals and transport systems

Homes

11:00 Safe as houses? Ventilation and health in dwellings Dr Benjamin Jones, Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham

Breathe easy – engineering air quality solutions now

11:08 Engineering solutions for air quality in homes Dr Andy Dengel, BRE Indoor Air Quality team

Hospitals

11:16 The spread of infectious disease and antimicrobial filters Dr Lena Circic, Lecturer at University College London

11:24 Indoor air quality in hospitals Dr Tim Lee, Birmingham City University – presenting on behalf of Dr Ghasson Shabha

Transport

11:33 Air pollution: home or away? Prof John Thornes, University of Birmingham

11:41 Emissions from road transport: monitoring mitigation actions Dr Teresa Raventos, University of Leicester

Green Infrastructure

11:49 Green Infrastructure as a built environment air quality service Professor John Dover, Staffordshire University

11:57 Panel Q&A

Horizon scanning masterclasses: What air quality solutions could we implement if barriers were removed?

12:05 Introduction to the exercise, Chair Table work

12:35 Reconvene & reporting back

12:50 Roadmap for the future, Chair & IET representative

13:00 Event close, lunch and networking