1/ Indoor Air Quality Matters
On average, Americans live to be 79 years old and spend 69 of those years INSIDE buildings. Of these 69 years, 54 are spent INSIDE our own homes.
I explain more in this 2019 presentation @AAAS.
On average, Americans live to be 79 years old and spend 69 of those years INSIDE buildings. Of these 69 years, 54 are spent INSIDE our own homes.
I explain more in this 2019 presentation @AAAS.
2/ The air pollution that we breathe during our lifetime, even pollution of outdoor origin, is dominated by the air we breathe INDOORS.
3/ We can dramatically reduce our exposure to air pollution by reducing emissions from indoor sources, removing pollutants of indoor origin (ventilation & good engineering controls), & designing/operating buildings to reduce outdoor pollution from penetrating indoors.
4/ While properly ventilating and reducing outdoor pollution that enters a building might seem contradictory, they do not have to be if we control where air enters a building and remove outdoor pollution before it enters the occupied indoor space.
5/ The indoor air quality field is relatively small given the significant impact of air pollution we breathe indoors. Still so much to be done to improve the healthiness of buildings. I hope those looking for future careers will consider a field that contributes to improved #IAQ.
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