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Air Quality Matters
Simon Jones
121 episodes
2 days ago

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. 

Air Quality Matters


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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. 

Air Quality Matters


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Natural Sciences
Technology,
Science
Episodes (20/121)
Air Quality Matters
One Take #18: Why Simple IAQ Mandates Won't Save Us - The Complex Reality of Global Air Standards
2 days ago

Air Quality Matters
#88 Richard Blakeway: Damp, Mould, and the Balance of Power and Fairness
2 days ago

Air Quality Matters
One Take #17: The Mold-Asthma Connection
3 days ago

Air Quality Matters
#89 - Healthy Buildings India 2025 Part 1: With Students and Industry
5 days ago

Air Quality Matters
One Take #16 - The False Promise of Indoor Comfort: Why Current Building Standards May Be Harming Our Health
Send us a text What if the very standards designed to keep us comfortable in buildings are actually making us unhealthy? This provocative question lies at the heart of groundbreaking research from Delft University of Technology. It challenges the fundamental assumptions that have guided building science for decades. Even when our buildings meet all current standards for temperature, lighting, acoustics, and air quality—and even when occupants report feeling comfortable—the fact remains that ...
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2 weeks ago
8 minutes

Air Quality Matters
#87 - Maxime Interbrick: Street-Level Intelligence Is Changing How We See Cities
Send us a text Is world of ambient air quality monitoring is in a deadlock. Despite having targets and technology, air pollution remains a persistent urban challenge. Why aren't things changing? This question drives Maxime Interbrick, co-founder of Sparrow Analytics, whose company is pioneering a revolutionary approach to environmental intelligence by deploying mobile sensors on vehicle fleets. In this conversation, Maxime reveals how mobile monitoring provides a fundamentally differen...
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2 weeks ago
2 hours 1 minute

Air Quality Matters
One Take #15 - Questioning the Questionnaire
Send us a text Have you ever wondered how researchers measure something as subjective as your comfort in a building? The latest episode of Air Quality Matters takes a surprising step back from specific pollutants to examine one of the most fundamental yet overlooked tools in indoor environmental research: the questionnaire. When scientists ask you to rate how stuffy a room feels or how comfortable the temperature is, they're relying on scales and questions that may be fundamentally flawed. M...
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3 weeks ago
10 minutes

Air Quality Matters
#86 - Sir Stephen Holgate: Beyond the Lungs: How Air Pollution Affects Your Entire Body
Send us a text When we talk about air pollution, we often think of it as an environmental issue – something that affects our skies and lungs. But the reality is far more complex and concerning. What if I told you that the particles you breathe in right now could be traveling through your bloodstream to every organ in your body? Sir Stephen Holgate, a distinguished physician and leading expert in respiratory medicine, joins us to unpack the multisystemic nature of air pollution. With over 50 ...
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3 weeks ago
1 hour 41 minutes

Air Quality Matters
One Take #14 - Healthy Buildings Command Higher Rents, But Location Matters More
Send us a text What's the true financial value of a healthier workplace? This episode of Air Quality Matters dives into research from the University of Cambridge that quantifies exactly how much companies are willing to pay for healthier office environments. The research reveals a significant "health premium" of 4-6% for buildings certified under health-focused standards like WELL and Fitwell. This represents a tangible financial incentive for property owners to invest in features that enhan...
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4 weeks ago
8 minutes

Air Quality Matters
#85 - Liam Bates : Clean Air, Clear Vision: Inside Air Quality Monitoring
Send us a text The journey from visible smog in Beijing to sophisticated indoor air quality monitoring systems spans just a decade, but the transformation has been remarkable. In this eye-opening conversation, Liam Bates, CEO and co-founder of Kaiterra, shares how personal experience with air pollution sparked a mission that evolved from consumer devices to enterprise-level building solutions. We explore why Kaiterra made the strategic decision to pivot from a successful B2C business selling...
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1 month ago
2 hours 7 minutes

Air Quality Matters
One Take #13 - Clean Air Crisis: A Breath Of Fresh Air Report
Send us a text What happens when the UK's medical establishment declares air pollution a public health emergency? The Royal College of Physicians' latest report "A Breath of Fresh Air" delivers a wake-up call that transforms how we understand pollution's impact on our bodies and minds. The science has evolved dramatically since their 2016 assessment. While annual pollution-related deaths in the UK have decreased to approximately 30,000, this statistic merely scratches the surface. The report...
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1 month ago
10 minutes

Air Quality Matters
#84 - Sarah Daly: Building Better: The Future of Sustainable Housing and Healthy Buildings
Send us a text The gap between what we know and what we build has never been more troubling. While we have centuries of construction knowledge at our fingertips, today's housing often fails at the most fundamental levels of health, comfort, and efficiency. Sarah Daly, Head of Strategic Partnerships and Sustainable Communities at Agile Homes, brings a refreshing perspective to this challenge. With her extensive background spanning sustainability, communications, and strategic leadership, Sara...
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1 month ago
1 hour 7 minutes

Air Quality Matters
One Take #12 - Pandemic Air Math: When Average Just Won't Cut It
Send us a text We explore the scientific approach behind ASHRAE Standard 241, developed to address airborne infection control in buildings during profound uncertainty. The standard represents a paradigm shift in how engineers design ventilation systems to manage risks from infectious aerosols. • Confronting the challenge that viral emissions from infected individuals vary across seven orders of magnitude • Abandoning deterministic models in favor of Monte Carlo simulations that embrace uncer...
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1 month ago
10 minutes

Air Quality Matters
#83 - Andrew Sutton: The Long Game: Quality, Risk, and Scaling Sustainable Housing
Send us a text Simon Jones sits down with Andrew Sutton, co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer at SERO, to explore the challenges and opportunities in retrofitting UK housing stock and how these parallel the challenges in ventilation and air quality. • Current retrofit efforts suffer from political cycles creating boom-bust patterns that make scaling difficult • Approximately half of a typical £35,000 retrofit cost is already in planned maintenance budgets • We need to move from product-ba...
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1 month ago
1 hour 25 minutes

Air Quality Matters
One Take #11 - Turning Low-Cost Air Quality Sensors into Compliance Tools
Send us a text Lidia Morawska's paper provides a pragmatic framework for using low-cost PM2.5 sensors in regulatory indoor air quality monitoring, solving the longstanding problem of affordable compliance without sacrificing accuracy. This clever calibration system transforms inexpensive sensors into reliable monitoring networks by using yearly reference calibrations of key sensors and applying correction factors across similar devices. • Low-cost sensors have revolutionized air qualit...
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1 month ago
8 minutes

Air Quality Matters
#82 - Vinod Kumar Sekar: From Healthcare to Hyderabad: Hosting ISIAC 2025
Send us a text Microbiologist Vinod Kumar Sikar shares his journey of bridging the gap between microbiology and engineering to improve indoor air quality, particularly in healthcare settings throughout India. He explains how the Healthy Buildings Conference coming to Hyderabad this August will foster multidisciplinary collaboration and knowledge-sharing essential for solving complex indoor environmental challenges. • Fine dust particles in India serve as vehicles for microorganisms, particul...
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1 month ago
1 hour 20 minutes

Air Quality Matters
One Take #10 - Invisible Danger, Visible Results: Democratizing Radon Measurement
Send us a text Can you trust those affordable radon detectors? Do you really need to wait a whole year to know if your home has dangerous radon levels? The latest episode of Air Quality Matters tackles these critical questions through a deep dive into groundbreaking research by Joan F. Ray and colleagues. Their paper, "Performance Evaluation of Radon Measurement Techniques in Single-Family Homes," challenges conventional wisdom about radon testing and brings encouraging news for homeowners ...
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1 month ago
8 minutes

Air Quality Matters
#81 - Nathan Wood: The Ventilation Crisis Nobody's Talking About And How We Fix It?
Send us a text "The lungs of our buildings are failing us." These sobering words from ventilation expert Nathan Wood capture the essence of a critical conversation about the silent crisis happening behind our walls. After inspecting countless ventilation systems across the UK, Nathan reveals the disturbing reality that approximately 75% of residential ventilation systems are fundamentally failing to perform as designed, not just minor issues, but catastrophic failures that compromise he...
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2 months ago
1 hour 34 minutes

Air Quality Matters
One Take #9 - What Makes People Actually Use Air Quality Apps
Send us a text What makes someone download an air quality monitoring app and actually keep using it? The answer might surprise you. In this eye-opening exploration of a fascinating study from Indonesia, we dive deep into the psychology behind environmental technology adoption. The research, published in the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, reveals that enjoyment—not usefulness—is the single most powerful driver of air quality app usage. Examining responses fr...
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2 months ago
9 minutes

Air Quality Matters
#80 Abigail Whitehouse: When a child can't breathe, everything else stops.
Send us a text What really happens in a child's body during a severe asthma attack? Dr. Abigail Whitehouse, pediatric respiratory consultant, takes us on a sobering journey through the physiology of asthma, beginning with a paramedic's memory of a late-night emergency. The conversation reveals the hidden mechanisms of respiratory distress—airways becoming increasingly constricted as immune cells flood lung tissues, creating a life-threatening situation where medication becomes ineffective an...
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2 months ago
1 hour 26 minutes

Air Quality Matters

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. 

Air Quality Matters