Learning spaces and environments

With COVID an ongoing concern and flu season getting started, aerosol researchers say there needs to be a focus on improving the quality of the air we all breathe while inside.

Better ventilation is part of President Biden’s plan for schools to resume in-person learning. Here’s how schools can do that quickly and without major investments.

Airflow inside buildings and other enclosed areas has received less attention than other COVID-19 prevention strategies, but now some experts are saying it is time to start talking about ventilation as a tool in our arsenal to reduce the spread of COVID-19

COVID has given us the opportunity to ensure our air is as safe as our water. It needn’t be expensive.

What are the design interventions we need to make to help us breathe easy indoors? Lidia Morawska, a distinguished professor and director of the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health at the Queensland University of Technology, is one person who can help. She says it's high time we reset our relationship to air quality.

An international group of experts led by a Queensland-based expert are calling for a complete rethink of indoor air quality in the wake of COVID-19.

Victorian students are learning in classrooms with very poor air quality. Our year-long analysis of Victorian primary and secondary school classrooms has found the amount of carbon dioxide (CO₂) often far exceeds the maximum acceptable standard.