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Australia Needs Better Regulation and Practice on Building Air Quality and Ventilation
Commercial
Monday March 7 2022

Australia Needs Better Regulation and Practice on Building Air Quality and Ventilation

Australia needs better regulation and practice regarding indoor air quality and ventilation in buildings, a former state premier and leader in building regulation says.

Call for “paradigm shift” to fight airborne spread of COVID-19 indoors
Commercial
Monday May 17 2021

Call for “paradigm shift” to fight airborne spread of COVID-19 indoors

QUT air-quality expert Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska is leading an international call for a “paradigm shift” in combating airborne pathogens such as COVID-19, demanding universal recognition...

How Will COVID-19 Change Air Quality Testing for Construction?
Green
Monday December 21 2020

How Will COVID-19 Change Air Quality Testing for Construction?

Research on COVID-19 may have given us an even better understanding of how ventilation can impact disease spread. While early health messaging focused on transfer of...

Making the Invisible Visible – How the WELL Building Standard puts Air Quality under the Microscope
Commercial
Thursday October 29 2020

Making the Invisible Visible – How the WELL Building Standard puts Air Quality under the Microscope

Humans breathe more than 15,000 litres of air every single day, consuming approximately four times more air than food and liquid. We’ve long known the importance...

Indoor Air Quality – The Science and the Low Hanging Fruit
Green
Wednesday May 8 2019

Indoor Air Quality – The Science and the Low Hanging Fruit

In school, we learnt the role trees and plants have in producing the oxygen we breathe.

Mould Spores and Indoor Air Quality: Ventilation and Particle Distribution
Environment
Friday August 18 2017

Mould Spores and Indoor Air Quality: Ventilation and Particle Distribution

Indoors, there is an old trade-off for the heating and cooling of a building: energy expended on temperature control versus input of good fresh air from...

Mould and Mildew Indoors: Terminology, Viability and Monitoring
Buildings
Friday May 26 2017

Mould and Mildew Indoors: Terminology, Viability and Monitoring

When describing a black or white patch developing on a wall, ceiling or floor in our building, should we say that it’s “mould” that’s causing these...

When it Comes to Buildings, Are We Healthy, Wealthy and Wise?
Green
Monday May 8 2017

When it Comes to Buildings, Are We Healthy, Wealthy and Wise?

Consumer demand for health and wellness is accelerating rapidly, and is on track to become what McKinsey calls a trillion-dollar market.

Green Offices Boost Brainpower
Green
Tuesday March 28 2017

Green Offices Boost Brainpower

The evidence that ‘green’ offices have a significant positive impact on the health and productivity of workers continues to mount.