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Awaab's Law is out for consultation and a visit to home with Damp and Mould got me thinking.

In this week's podcast, I talk about the story of Jen, a mum struggling to keep on top of mould in her home and the effect on her and her family. I also talk about the asset manager and their battle to keep on top of the issues on the estate and elsewhere under her management.

For every case of extreme damp and mould that makes it into the news or generates an emergency response from a housing provider, there are countless more, sitting in this middle ground, just getting by.

I discuss the challenge of the grey area in the middle, some of what is wrong with the sector in providing adequate ventilation and what is next.

Future Homes Standard Consultation

Managing and Addressing Damp and Mould in Housing

Awaab's Law Consultation
 

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Pawel Wargocki -  was recently promoted to Professor at DTU, Technical University of Denmark.

He’s the Past President of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate.

Previously, served as Chair of ASHRAE Environmental Health Committee and the Position Document Committee, Secretary of Academy of Indoor Air Sciences, and currently serving as a  Director of the International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy.

Hel is an indoor climate scientist and expert, he teaches at undergraduate, graduate and Ph.D. level courses, and supervises several Ph.D. and numerous M. Sc. students.

His research has influenced the development of indoor air sciences, and it is hard to overstate the impact he has had in this sector.

He continues to be involved in fascinating research on the impact of air quality on performance in the workplace, health and performance in schools, and the impact of air quality on sleep. He is behind a fascinating standard for assessing IEQ called tail and the list, honestly goes on.

Pawel is one of my favourite people to talk to in this space, he is respected, experienced and sometimes outspoken. But always great value to spend around.

We talked about so much in the episode, including his work on tail, how we are doing a characterisng air quality in general, some of his work on sleep and quite a bit more beside.

Pawel Wargocki - DTU 
Linkedin - Pawel Wargocki
TAIL - Indoor Environmental Quality

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Part 2 - Pawel Wargocki -  was recently promoted to Professor at DTU, Technical University of Denmark.

He’s the Past President of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate.

Previously, served as Chair of ASHRAE Environmental Health Committee and the Position Document Committee, Secretary of Academy of Indoor Air Sciences, and currently serving as a  Director of the International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy.

Hel is an indoor climate scientist and expert, he teaches at undergraduate, graduate and Ph.D. level courses, and supervises several Ph.D. and numerous M. Sc. students.

His research has influenced the development of indoor air sciences, and it is hard to overstate the impact he has had in this sector.

He continues to be involved in fascinating research on the impact of air quality on performance in the workplace, health and performance in schools, and the impact of air quality on sleep. He is behind a fascinating standard for assessing IEQ called tail and the list, honestly goes on.

Pawel is one of my favourite people to talk to in this space, he is respected, experienced and sometimes outspoken. But always great value to spend around.

We talked about so much in the episode, including his work on tail, how we are doing a characterisng air quality in general, some of his work on sleep and quite a bit more beside.

Pawel Wargocki - DTU
Linkedin - Pawel Wargocki
TAIL - Indoor Environmental Quality

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Part 2 - Ian Mawditt

With the consultation out now for the Future Homes Standard and some revisions to guidance on Part F (ventilation) in the UK, what better time to talk to the person behind many of the changes we have seen in guidance over the last few years?

Ian is an independent Building Performance Researcher, specialising in the testing
and monitoring of buildings to evaluate the energy performance, indoor
environmental quality, and comfort. 

He is routinely involved in field-based building performance research programmes. The outcomes of his research projects often help inform building standards.

Ian has been a long-standing partner of the AECOM-led technical team appointed to
support the UK Government (now the Building Safety Regulator, part of HSE) and,
separately, the Welsh Government, in developing revisions to Parts F and L of the
Building Regulations for England and Wales, respectively. 

Since 2008, Ian has provided a leading technical role in the revisions to Approved Document F and the building fabric specifications for Approved Document L, including airtightness standards. More recently, Ian has developed formal guidance for the Future Homes Standard, intended to reduce the performance gap and to improve ventilation standards during the retrofitting of existing homes.

We speak about standards, their role in addressing the performance gap and improving outcomes, what he sees in his research and much more.

• Ian Mawditt - Linkedin
• Fourwalls
• Future Homes and Part F Consultation
• Ventilation and IAQ in New Homes 

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Part 1 - Ian Mawditt

With the consultation out now for the Future Homes Standard and some revisions to guidance on Part F (ventilation) in the UK, what better time to talk to the person behind many of the changes we have seen in guidance over the last few years?

Ian is an independent Building Performance Researcher, specialising in the testing
and monitoring of buildings to evaluate the energy performance, indoor
environmental quality, and comfort. 

He is routinely involved in field-based building performance research programmes. The outcomes of his research projects often help inform building standards.

Ian has been a long-standing partner of the AECOM-led technical team appointed to
support the UK Government (now the Building Safety Regulator, part of HSE) and,
separately, the Welsh Government, in developing revisions to Parts F and L of the
Building Regulations for England and Wales, respectively. 

Since 2008, Ian has provided a leading technical role in the revisions to Approved Document F and the building fabric specifications for Approved Document L, including airtightness standards. More recently, Ian has developed formal guidance for the Future Homes Standard, intended to reduce the performance gap and to improve ventilation standards during the retrofitting of existing homes.

We speak about standards, their role in addressing the performance gap and improving outcomes, what he sees in his research and much more.

• Ian Mawditt - Linkedin
• Fourwalls 
• Future Homes and Part F Consultation 
• Ventilation and IAQ in New Homes 

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Part 1
Jelle Laverge - is an associate professor of the building physics research group of the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at Ghent University with a research focus on residential ventilation and teaches amongst other things construction law.

An operating agent of IEA-EBC Annex 86 a multi-national project looking at Energy Efficient Indoor Air Quality Management in Residential Buildings,

He is a practicing attorney-at-law a member of ISIAQ, and ASHRAE.

Jelle holds an MSc in architectural engineering (2007), an ML in fiscal law (2011) and a PhD in engineering (2013) from Ghent University.

A part-time building physics lecturer also in Gent and a visiting scholar at the University of Texas.

Jelle has been focused on ventilation and air quality for a long time and brings a wealth of experience to the dialogue. Pretty much turn a page on a paper on ventilation and Jelle will be cited somewhere.

It was great to get his take on where Belgium has come from and is going with ventilation, a country that is often pushing ahead and showing the way.

The gaps that exist in performance and why. We talked about ventilation and sector through the lens of law, standards his work leading Annexe 86 a very important piece of work and much more.

Jelle Laverge - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jlaverge/

Jelle Laverge - https://www.ugent.be/ea/architectuur/en/research/researchers/jelle-laverge

Annex 86 - https://annex86.iea-ebc.org/

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Part 2
Jelle Laverge - is an associate professor of the building physics research group of the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at Ghent University with a research focus on residential ventilation and teaches amongst other things construction law.

An operating agent of IEA-EBC Annex 86 a multi-national project looking at Energy Efficient Indoor Air Quality Management in Residential Buildings,

He is a practicing attorney-at-law a member of ISIAQ, and ASHRAE.

Jelle holds an MSc in architectural engineering (2007), an ML in fiscal law (2011) and a PhD in engineering (2013) from Ghent University.

A part-time building physics lecturer also in Gent and a visiting scholar at the University of Texas.

Jelle has been focused on ventilation and air quality for a long time and brings a wealth of experience to the dialogue. Pretty much turn a page on a paper on ventilation and Jelle will be cited somewhere.

It was great to get his take on where Belgium has come from and is going with ventilation, a country that is often pushing ahead and showing the way.

The gaps that exist in performance and why. We talked about ventilation and sector through the lens of law, standards his work leading Annexe 86 a very important piece of work and much more.

Jelle Laverge - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jlaverge/

Jelle Laverge - https://www.ugent.be/ea/architectuur/en/research/researchers/jelle-laverge

Annex 86 - https://annex86.iea-ebc.org/

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Part 2
Henry Burridge - Is a Senior Lecturer in the Fluid Mechanics section in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London.

Henry has a background in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Imperial College London.

Following his PhD, Henry has worked as a Post Doctoral Researcher at the University of Cambridge, initially in the Engineering Department and then in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

Henry's research focuses on fluid mechanics for the built environment. And includes the practical application of this understanding to the human- and climate change-focused ventilation of buildings, amongst much more.

He  is a Co-Investigator for the Tackling Air Pollution At Schools (TAPAS) network and the Future Urban Ventilation Network (FUVN): The Breathing City

Henry primarily applies his expertise to indoor air quality and ventilation, presenting evidence to the Common Select Committee for Health and Social Care and contributing to the Technical Advisory Panel on Ventilation for the Government's Cabinet Office, and being an author for the 'Indoor Air Quality and Health' chapter within the Chief Medical Officer’s annual report 2022: air pollution.

A focus area for him is schools, and Henry currently leads the initiative towards School Air Quality Monitoring for Health and Education via the SAMHE project, seeking to establish large-scale monitoring in UK schools and engage pupils with their school environment.

He is a Co-Investigator on  CO-TRACE, investigating COVID-19 transmission in schools. And joint Principal-Investigator of the Department for Education's pilot project investigating the 'Changes In the Ventilation Of Schools when monitoring CO2.

Needless to say much of our discussion in the podcast was about schools, the challenges that particular sector faces, the impact of air quality on children and teachers and how projects like SAMHE are engaging kids in the science of air quality. We discussed much more of course including the value of observatories for indoor air quality.

Henry Burridge - https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/h.burridge
SAMHE - https://samhe.org.uk/
FUVN -

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Part 1
Henry Burridge - Is a Senior Lecturer in the Fluid Mechanics section in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London.

Henry has a background in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Imperial College London.

Following his PhD, Henry has worked as a Post Doctoral Researcher at the University of Cambridge, initially in the Engineering Department and then in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

Henry's research focuses on fluid mechanics for the built environment. And includes the practical application of this understanding to the human- and climate change-focused ventilation of buildings, amongst much more.

He  is a Co-Investigator for the Tackling Air Pollution At Schools (TAPAS) network and the Future Urban Ventilation Network (FUVN): The Breathing City

Henry primarily applies his expertise to indoor air quality and ventilation, presenting evidence to the Common Select Committee for Health and Social Care and contributing to the Technical Advisory Panel on Ventilation for the Government's Cabinet Office, and being an author for the 'Indoor Air Quality and Health' chapter within the Chief Medical Officer’s annual report 2022: air pollution.

A focus area for him is schools, and Henry currently leads the initiative towards School Air Quality Monitoring for Health and Education via the SAMHE project, seeking to establish large-scale monitoring in UK schools and engage pupils with their school environment.

He is a Co-Investigator on  CO-TRACE, investigating COVID-19 transmission in schools. And joint Principal-Investigator of the Department for Education's pilot project investigating the 'Changes In the Ventilation Of Schools when monitoring CO2.

Needless to say much of our discussion in the podcast was about schools, the challenges that particular sector faces, the impact of air quality on children and teachers and how projects like SAMHE are engaging kids in the science of air quality. We discussed much more of course including the value of observatories for indoor air quality.

Henry Burridge - https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/h.burridge
SAMHE - https://samhe.org.uk/
FUVN -

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Well, how have you been enjoying the last few weeks of Air Quality Matters

I thought it might be good to reflect on podcasting and some of the conversations I have been having.

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See you in the next episode. IAQ and schools!

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