Mandating indoor air quality for public buildings

• 成果类型: Editorial Material
• 署名作者: Morawska, Lidia; Allen, Joseph; Bahnfleth, William; Bennett, Belinda; Bluyssen, Philomena M.; Boerstra, Atze; Buonanno, Giorgio; Cao, Junji; Dancer, Stephanie J.; Floto, Andres; Franchimon, Francesco; Greenhalgh, Trish; Haworth, Charles; Hogeling, Jaap; Isaxon, Christina; Jimenez, Jose L.; Kennedy, Amanda; Kumar, Prashant; Kurnitski, Jarek; Li, Yuguo; Loomans, Marcel; Marks, Guy; Marr, Linsey C.; Mazzarella, Livio; Melikov, Arsen Krikor; Miller, Shelly L.; Milton, Donald K.; Monty, Jason; Nielsen, Peter V.; Noakes, Catherine; Peccia, Jordan; Prather, Kimberly A.; Querol, Xavier; Salthammer, Tunga; Sekhar, Chandra; Seppaenen, Olli; Tanabe, Shin-ichi; Tang, Julian W.; Tellier, Raymond; Tham, Kwok Wai; Wargocki, Pawel; Wierzbicka, Aneta; Yao, Maosheng
• 署名单位: University of Queensland; University of Surrey; Harvard University; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Queensland University of Technology (QUT); Delft University of Technology; University of Cassino; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Edinburgh Napier University; University of Cambridge; University of Oxford; Papworth Hospital; University of Cambridge; Lund University; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; Tallinn University of Technology; University of Hong Kong; Eindhoven University of Technology; University of New South Wales Sydney; Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; Polytechnic University of Milan; Technical University of Denmark; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland Baltimore; University of Melbourne; Aalborg University; University of Leeds; Yale University; University of California System; University of California San Diego; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC); CSIC - Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo Pascual Vila (CID-CSIC); CSIC - Instituto de Diagnostico Ambiental y Estudios del Agua (IDAEA); National University of Singapore; Aalto University; Waseda University; University of Leicester; McGill University; Lund University; Peking University
• 刊物名称: SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0036-8368
• DOI: 10.1126/science.adl0677
• 发表日期: 2024-03-29
• 页码: 1418-1420

摘要

If some countries lead by example, standards may increasingly become normalized People living in urban and industrialized societies, which are expanding globally, spend more than 90% of their time in the indoor environment, breathing indoor air (IA). Despite decades of research and advocacy, most countries do not have legislated indoor air quality (IAQ) performance standards for public spaces that address concentration levels of IA pollutants ( 1 ). Few building codes address operation, maintenance, and retrofitting, and most do not focus on airborne disease transmission. But the COVID-19 pandemic has made all levels of society, from community members to decision-makers, realize the importance of IAQ for human health, wellbeing, productivity, and learning. We propose that IAQ standards be mandatory for public spaces. Although enforcement of IAQ performance standards in homes is not possible, homes must be designed and equipped so that they could meet the standards.