Air Quality Matters
Simon Jones
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Air Quality Matters inside our buildings and out.
This Podcast is about Indoor Air Quality, Outdoor Air Quality, Ventilation, and Health in our homes, workplaces, and education settings.
And we already have many of the tools we need to make a difference.
The conversations we have and how we share this knowledge is the key to our success.
We speak with the leaders at the heart of this sector about them and their work, innovation and where this is all going.
Air quality is the single most significant environmental risk we face to our health and wellbeing, and its impacts on us, our friends, our families, and society are profound.
From housing to the workplace, education to healthcare, the quality of the air we breathe matters.
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Catch Me If You Can: Why We're Always One Step Behind the Next Pathogen - #OT47
This week, we dive into a thought-provoking commentary published in the Journal of Health Security titled Catch Me If You Can: Reducing Infectious Disease Through Better Indoor Air Quality and Bio…
Beyond Grants and Targets: The Human Side of Retrofitting 500,000 Irish Homes
This week, we sit down with Ciaran Byrne, Director of National Retrofit, and Brian McIntyre, Program Manager for High Performance Building Technologies at the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland…
From Reactive to Proactive: Designing Air Quality Sensors That Residents Actually Want - #OT46
This week, we dive into a fascinating paper from the Journal of Sustainable Futures titled Co-creating Sustainable Innovations in Irish Social Housing Through Participatory Research, to explore a…
Sick Buildings to Smart Sensors: How IAQ Evolved Over Two Decades - Indoor Air 2026 Preview
This week, we sit down with Kwok Wai THam, President of Indoor Air 2026 with Vice Presidents, Yvonne Soh, and Chandra Sekhar, to explore a question that fundamentally challenges how we think about…
Wet Towels, Cold Rooms: The Hidden Physics of Indoor Laundry Drying - #OT45
This week, we dive into a fascinating full scale experimental study published in the Journal of Indoor Environments titled Indoor Laundry Drying: Full Scale Determination of Water Emissions Rates and…
Why the Future of Healthy Buildings Is About Meeting People Where They Are - Rachel Hodgdon 118
This week, we sit down with Rachel Hodgdon, President and CEO of the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), to explore a question that fundamentally challenges how we think about healthy…
The Blinking Light Problem: Why Handing Teachers CO2 Monitors Isn't Enough - #OT44
This week, we dive into a fascinating paper from Douglas Booker published in the journal Athermira titled Unstable Air: How COVID-19 Remade Knowing Air Quality in School Classrooms, to explore a…
Beyond Particulates: How Gas Phase Filtration Protects Everything From Data Centers to Lungs 117
This week, we sit down with Christopher Mueller, Global Director of the High Purity Segment at AAF International (American Air Filters), to explore a question that fundamentally challenges how we…
The Wrong Corner: How Air Purifier Placement Can Increase Infection Risk OT43
This week, we dive into a groundbreaking computational fluid dynamics study from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden that fundamentally challenges how we think about portable air cleaners in…
[DELETED ON YOUTUBE] Future Solutions and Public Affairs: Innovation of Policy and Product - Mikael Börjesson #116
This week, we sit down with Mikael Börjesson, Future Solutions and Public Affairs Director at Swegon Group, to explore a question that fundamentally challenges how we think about sustainability in…
The Physics of Fresh Air: Natural Ventilation Still Works in 2025 - Ben Jones #115
This week, we sit down with Ben Jones, Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham and one of the lead authors of AM10, CIBSE's guide to natural ventilation in non-domestic buildings, to…
The White Box Problem: Why Most Air Purifiers Are Designed to Confuse You - Danny Ashton #114
This week, we sit down with Danny Ashton, founder and host of HouseFresh, a consumer comparisons and testing YouTube channel and website for residential air cleaners, to explore a question that…
Weighing Dust vs. Counting Danger: Why PM2.5 Misses the Deadliest Particles - OT42
This week, we step slightly outside the building envelope to examine a question that fundamentally challenges everything we think we know about air pollution: What if the metric the entire world uses…
Show Up and Breathe: The Slam Dunk ROI That Still Needs an Energy Story to Sell - Jason Jones #113
This week, we sit down with Jason Jones, Director of Air Quality Management at Fellowes, to explore a question that fundamentally challenges how we sell, specify, and sustain indoor air quality…
The Science is Settled, But Who's Paying the Bill? UK School Air Quality Guidance 2026 - OT41
This week, we examine a document that represents a profound shift in how we think about school environments: What if the debate over airborne transmission and clean air in schools is finally over—and…
Finish Line Problem: Defining What Healthy Buildings Mean for Human Bodies - Stephanie Taylor #112
This week, we sit down with Stephanie Taylor, a unique physician architect whose career is dedicated to bridging the deep chasm between the medical profession and the built environment, to explore a…
Federal and State Policy: The Missing Piece in the Indoor Air Quality Puzzle - OT40
This week, we tackle a question that cuts through decades of technical progress and scientific consensus: What if the reason we still don't have clean indoor air isn't because we lack the…
Free Radicals, Diesel Particles, and the War Zone in Your Lungs - Frank Kelly #111
This week, we sit down with Frank Kelly, Professor at Imperial College London and Director of the Environmental Research Group, to examine a question that fundamentally challenges how we think about…
The Human Nose vs. The Lab: Testing Air Cleaners That Actually Improve Indoor Air Quality - OT39
This week, we dive into a question that challenges one of the most common assumptions in building energy efficiency: What if the chemical tests we use to validate air cleaning technology are…
Sheep's Wool, Formaldehyde, and the Chemical Experiment in Your Living Room - Mark Lynn #110
This week, we sit down with Mark Lynn, Managing Director of Eden Renewable Innovations and Chair of the Alliance for Sustainable Building Products, to explore a question that cuts to the heart of…
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