Guidelines For Health-Based Ventilation In Europe

Pawel Wargocki, Paolo Carrer, Eduardo de Oliveira Fernandes, Otto O. Hänninen, Stylianos Kephalopoulos

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    Abstract

    The burden of disease (BoD) associated with major air exposures indoors in 26 European countries was recently accounted for loss of two million healthy life years annually expressed as disability adjusted life years (DALYs) (Jantunen et al., 2011). The development of health-based ventilation guidelines has been recommended as one of the strategic priorities to reduce this BoD (de Oliveira-Fernandes et al., 2009), also because the current ventilation standards in Europe provide different categories of comfort, not health, as the main criteria for designing ventilation requirements (EN 13779, 2007). HealthVent project was granted by the European Commission through the Second Programme of Community Action in the Field of Health 2008-2013 to develop the principles of such guidelines. This paper describes the results of this project.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of Indoor Air 2014
    Number of pages3
    PublisherInternational Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate
    Publication date2014
    Publication statusPublished - 2014
    Event13th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate - University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    Duration: 7 Jul 201412 Jul 2014
    Conference number: 13
    http://www.indoorair2014.org/

    Conference

    Conference13th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate
    Number13
    LocationUniversity of Hong Kong
    Country/TerritoryHong Kong
    CityHong Kong
    Period07/07/201412/07/2014
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    Keywords

    • Ventilation
    • Health
    • Public buildings
    • Commercial buildings
    • Regulations

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