This document results from a Working Group set up by the World Health Organization. It reviews States current approaches to protect population from environmental tobacco smoke exposure. The meeting defined conditions for successful policies and recommended strategies for future action.
This report informs and advises governments, public health authorities, policy makers and sectors relevant to indoor air quality management on how to develop and strengthen IAQ policy in order to protect and promote health in the indoor environment. Strategies and possible action plan for policies related to public non-industrial buildings. The report also summarizes experience in European countries and in the USA.
The document consists in the Proceedings of the 2001 AIVC conference, which took place in in September 2001 in Bath (England). It contains 42 articles corresponding to the speeches given during the Conference.
The document consists in the Proceedings of the 1999 AIVC conference, which took place in in August 1999 in Edinburgh (Scotland). It contains 141 articles corresponding to the speeches given during the Conference.
This document results from a Working Group set up by the World Health Organization. It formulates a set of statements on the right to healthy indoor air.
The natural ventilation potential (NVP) is the possibility, or probability, to ensure anacceptable indoor air quality by natural ventilation only. A passive cooling potential (PCP)can also be defined, as the possibility to ensure an acceptable indoor thermal comfort usingnatural ventilation.
The indoor environmental quality of a building is intended as the thermal, visual, acoustic and indoor air quality performances as a whole, which provide health and comfort for occupants. In architecture, global approach to environmental quality design is necessary. High levels of quality are needed for each aspect, even though design requirements may at times be opposed. In order to determine opportunities and limits of global approach, problems related to visual and acoustic comfort assessment were examined for a baroque church in Italy.
The main objective of our study was to know more about indoor air quality in offices building over a long period. Our study has been carried out in one building located downtown Lyon (France). Measurements have been carried out one day each month during a one year period. Indoor air quality in the offices along with the one of air flows of the HVAC (Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning) installation (outdoor air, blown air and returned air) has been characterised by temperature and relative humidity of air, dust concentration level, air biocontamination and CO2 concentrations.
The mitigation to reduce indoor pollutant concentration are increasing ventilation rate or to reduce the emission of the pollutant which is also common in VOCs. Households, furnitures, building materials and so are well known as the source of indoor VOCs. There are several devices to measure emission of VOCs, such as an emission chamber or FLEC, which are adopted in ISO 16000. However these 2 methods has each disadvantages e.g. the chamber is suitable only in a fixed condition such as a laboratory, or the necessity of a pump and humidifer.
The use of hypochlorite for water disinfection is source of chloramines production, which are transferred to the atmosphere.Nitrogen trichloride (NCl3) is the main component, which is a major cause of respiratory and ocular problems for swimmers and lifeguards. This first part comprised a sampling campaign concerning the measurement of NCl3 in a swimming pool (Picardie-France) during 15 days (October 2001). This campaign concerned the air quality diagnostics and showed that the majority of detected levels were critical (P50 = 0,44 mg/m 3 ).
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