Frontiers in Built Environment (Journal)

Ejohwomu, O. (Guest editor)

Civil Engineering and Management

Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work › Research

Description

Future Indoor-Outdoor Built Environment Air Quality: Measurements, Assessments and Policies in Low Resource Regions

Period	1 Aug 2022 → 22 Dec 2024
Type of journal	Journal
ISSN	2297-3362
Degree of Recognition	International

Keywords

Coupled Indoor-Outdoor Air Quality
Indoor Air Quality
Outdoor Air Quality
Low-Resource Regions
Low-Income Regions
Built Environment

Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

Thomas Ashton Institute
Manchester Environmental Research Institute

Documents & Links

The indoor-outdoor environment air quality around buildings is very important. Air pollution is a huge environmental risk to health, and reducing this would considerably reduce the disease burden from respiratory diseases. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), as of 2019, 99% of the world population was inhabiting areas where the air quality concentration values were higher than the WHO air quality guidelines. Evidence also suggests that most of the estimated premature deaths due to poor air quality occur in low and middle-income regions and these also account for poor indoor air quality due to the design of the houses and the use of fossil fuels for cooking. Whilst considerable work has been performed in high-income regions regarding air quality around buildings, there is scant research in this area with respect to low-income regions. In these areas, a number of questions arise as to how the built environment can be harnessed to (i) innovatively tackle the air quality issues specific to such regions in a sustainable manner, given the resource constraints (ii) how these inform and or are informed by the policies, learning and research in these regions. We are interested in Original Research, Perspective and Review articles that directly address the difficulties in applying the fundamental science of measuring, assessing and building policies regarding the indoor-outdoor environment air quality around buildings in developing countries. This topic is multidisciplinary in approach, ranging from the fundamental science, to the unique built environment factors in these regions, and the influence of measurement methods and policy implementation. Successful case studies that can trace the results to fundamental knowledge are particularly welcome. We welcome, but are not limited to, these topics: • Coupled Indoor-outdoor air-quality studies • Measurements, modelling, built environment design, policy, implementation • Construction environment studies, educational institutions, industrial and office environments • Digital measurements of indoor/outdoor air quality • Policies and their intent • Carbon neutral built environment • Risk characterisation, mitigation and health burden • Air quality reduction cases in the built environment

Frontiers in Built Environment (Journal)

Description

Keywords

Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

Documents & Links

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Prizes

The RISE Award 2024 for Education and Training

Microscoping Carbon Footprint and Standardising Carbon Emission in Africa

Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology (FEIT) Visiting Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia

Press/Media

EarthSense Zephyr® Sensor Deployed in Nigeria to Launch Air Quality Monitoring in Low Resource Areas

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University academic praised after helping test PPE equipment for key workers

Investigating the impact of air pollution on chronic disease in people living with HIV

Project Management in action: rapid PPE testing during the Covid-19 crisis

Impacts

Revealing the societal value of quality urban air monitoring in low resource environments

Research output

Temperature, Humidity and Air Pollution Relationships during a Period of Rainy and Dry Seasons in Lagos, West Africa

Modelling and Forecasting Temporal Pm2.5 Concentration Using Ensemble Machine Learning Methods

The exposure of workers at a busy road node to PM_2.5: occupational risk characterisation and mitigation measures