University of Otago Summer School seminar: Indoor Air Quality

27 February 2018

This seminar-style course provided an essential introduction to what air pollution is and what issues are unique to New Zealand. This course explored how air pollution affects the health and wellbeing of people and what factors we can change to reduce the numbers of hospital admissions and deaths due to air pollution. Topics covered:

  1. What is indoor air quality and what are issues are unique to New Zealand?
  2. How does indoor air quality affect the health of people?
  3. What can be done to improve indoor air quality?
  4. How can building design improve indoor air quality?