Future Urban Ventilation Network

Photo of Hywel Davies receiving an award with other speakers and colleagues from Breathing City

Fantastic event last night focused on Collaboration for Knowledge to enable Healthy, Safe and Sustainable buildings. So many ideas and thoughts around how to do things better and a chance to honour Hywel Davies for his contributions to better buildings over so many years

Ella Kissi-Debrah: Statue unveiled of London girl who inspired Sadiq Khan's Ulez Statue funded by public donations stands same height as nine-year-old Ella

Ella Kissi-Debrah: Statue unveiled of London girl who inspired Sadiq Khan's Ulez

#AirPollution #Health #Asthma
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Just one week to go to the abstract deadline for this years UKIEG conference, which is in Leeds on 19th June. Great opportunity to network with UK folks interested in indoor environments www.ukieg2025leeds.co.uk

Ten questions concerning the future of residential indoor air quality and its environmental justice implications Humans spend a large proportion of their time at home, where exposure to poor indoor air quality has detrimental – and often inequitably distributed –…

Interested in residential air quality and environmental justice? Check out this new paper from @douglasbooker.bsky.social and others in the HEICAMM network exploring ten key research questions in this area www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Some cool natural ventilation aspects at the natural history museum. Check out this spider underfloor air vent and the cross ventilation made the vault lovely and fresh.

Rolling back on climate actions may spell rise in preventable illness – study Net zero policies would result in fewer deaths saving UK billions, say researchers

Countries that weaken or stop their #netzero and #climate actions may be consigning their populations to decades of preventable #airpollution illness.

My latest for @theguardian.com on research led by Imperial College London.

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Anna Lisa McSweeney, UK Network Lead, Built by Nature. Asselia Katenbayeva, Research Associate, ASBP. John Kirkby, Executive Director, PEFC UK. Darren Thomas, Co-Founder and CEO, Double Helix Tracking Technologies. Mila Duncheva, Business Development Manager UK & Ireland, Stora Enso. Adedayo Shittu-Balogun, Director of Projects, Eurban.

Join us on 26 Feb 2025 for our #HealthyBuildings2025 day in London. asbp.org.uk/healthybuild...

Session 2
- Built by Nature, funders of the IMPACTT project, increasing the transparency around the climate impacts of building with wood.
- The Cascade, a new 7-storey CLT apartment building in Cardiff.

Researchers overlooked airborne diseases for centuries — then COVID-19 changed everything A fascinating exploration of microbes that can travel through the air reveals how the pandemic marked a turning point for a crucial research field.

“A fascinating exploration of microbes that can travel through the air reveals how the pandemic marked a turning point for a crucial research field.” @linseymarr.bsky.social reviews @carlzimmer.com’s new book, AIR-BORNE

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Measles is preventable with two doses of measles vaccine; yet more than 22 million children missed their first dose of measles vaccine in 2023. Globally, an estimated 83% of children received their first dose of measles vaccine last year, while only 74% received the recommended second dose.

More than 10 million people globally were infected with measles in 2023

Measles cases continue to surge globally, putting millions of children at risk.

More than 10 million people globally were infected with measles in 2023, a 20% increase from the previous year.

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Free webinar “improving air quality in schools. What can we do?”

Free to sign up. For teachers, parents, students, and anyone interested in improving the classroom.

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Emissions of air pollutants An annual publication covering the emissions of some important air pollutants.

Today’s data shows that emissions of many air pollutants reduced across the UK between 2022 & 2023, continuing a trend of reduction since 1970. This includes a reduction in PM2.5 – the pollutant of greatest concern to health – by 76% since 1990, and by 6% since 2022. 1/5 www.gov.uk/government/s...

Brake pad dust can be more toxic than exhaust emissions, study says Research shows move to electric vehicles may not be enough to enable pollution from cars to be eradicated

Delighted to share this piece of work by our team from @unisouthampton.bsky.social led by Dr James Parkin!

Brake pad dust can be more toxic than exhaust emissions, study says www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Norovirus lab reports in England, by week. Data from 1 July 2024 to 03 February 2025. The data shows a peak in late November, decreasing over the festive period, then a continued rise since. Source: Second-Generation-Surveillance System (SGSS)

We have published new #Norovirus data today showing cases are 117% above the 5-season average. Lots of people are getting sick with the winter vomiting bug. 📈

Learn about managing the virus in our blog post 👀
ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2022/11/17/n...

Full report here 👇
www.gov.uk/government/s...

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➡️ Do you know how to find, process and analyse data?
➡️ Can you spot opportunities to use data to inform topical talking points?
➡️ Do you want to contribute to accurate reporting of climate change and energy?

Apply for the data analyst position here ➡️ https://buff.ly/4hfk2BD

Communicating Air Quality: Physical, Digital and Theoretical Advances Led by the Environmental Research Group at Imperial College, in collaboration with the University of Oxford and funded by the British Academy/Wellcome Trust. The one-day event will bring together spe...

Join me at the 1st International Conference dedicated to exploring Air Quality Communications...

Speakers from across the world of air quality: artists and app-makers, academics and activists and attendees
will explore how the air is communicated in our world.

www.imperial.ac.uk/events/18787...

Hello to everyone who had followed us. To find out more about our network and for lots of great ventilation resources, take a look at our website breathingcity.org

For all #ventilation fans, the Future Urban Ventilation Network @breathingcity.bsky.social has just joined Bluesky. Follow for events and updates around ventilation and IAQ from the network.

The Future Urban Ventilation Network is on Bluesky! We’ve decided not to post on X anymore so anything from our network will now be here. Follow us for #ventilation #IndoorAir and #UrbanFlows