8.6.2025
InChildHealth is presenting a workshop session focuses on “Indoor Environment Quality (IEQ) in School Buildings”. The workshop will focus on improving indoor air quality (IAQ) in educational settings through various assessment and intervention strategies. Presentations will cover a range of topics including microbial contamination, emission rates from cleaning products, radon exposure, ventilation and filtration strategies, ultrafine particle characterization, and the use of sensor nodes for air quality assessment.
Workshop Chair: Professor Heidi Salonen (Aalto university, InChildHealth project PI)
Workshop co-Chairs: Professor Mihalis Lazaridis (Technical University of Crete, TUC) and Professor Ulla Haverinen-Shaughnessy (Oulu University).
Presentations:
- Presentation of the InChildHealth project, Heidi Salonen (Aalto University)
- Assessing Microbial Contamination in Schools Using Electrostatic Dust Cloth (EDC) Sampling: A Longitudinal Study, Pedro Pena (Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, IPL).
- Chamber studies on the estimation of emission rates from commercial cleaning products during mopping, Sofia Eirini Chatoutsidou (Technical University of Crete, TUC)
- Testing portable ventilation and filtration strategies in a quasi-experimental classroom setting, Ulla Haverinen-Shaughnessy (University of Oulu)
- Characterization of ultrafine particle number concentration and size distribution in the school environment, Stavroula Katsikari (National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, NCSR”D”)
- Assessment of Air Quality in Primary Schools in Denmark using Multimodal Sensor Nodes, Louise Bøge Frederickson (Aarhus University)