Indoor Air Quality Conference 2023

The Indoor Air Quality Conference 2023 will be held in Brisbane from July 17–18.

Good quality indoor air is critical for good health. Australians spend 90 per cent of their time indoors – in the home, office, or other types of buildings – where airborne particles, gases, chemicals, mould, and other pollutants can cause headaches, eye irritation, allergies, and fatigue. Serious pollutants can cause certain types of cancers and other long-term health complications.

Supplying clean air through a building’s heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems can prevent many environmental health hazards such as asthma. According to Asthma Australia, asthma affects one in nine Australians (around 2.7 million people).

About the conference

The purpose of this conference is to provide AIRAH members and the broader industry with a platform for discussing issues related to indoor air quality (IAQ). This includes policy advice, regulation development, and the development of (and access to) the latest industry-leading advice. This conference will promote a whole-of-supply-chain integrated view on issues related to indoor air quality, along with best-practice delivery in the Australian and international community.

Key topics

• Indoor air quality, health, and wellbeing
• Mega-trends and indoor air quality
  • Urbanisation and the consequences for indoor environmental quality (IEQ)Climate change and indoor climate
    • Bushfires, floods, and other severe weather events

• Sustainable and healthy buildings
  • Energy efficiency
  • Intelligent design and solutions

• Regulation, standards, policy, guidelines, education
  • World’s best practice
  • AQ and impacts on insurance

• Building simulation and modelling
  • Air distribution
  • Interaction of structures and IEQ

• Chemistry, sources, transformations
  • Indoor air chemistry
  • Material emissions

• Monitoring of indoor air quality
  • VOCs, and other gaseous contaminants
  • Particles, fibres
  • Analytics and sensors

• Ventilation and air cleaning
  • Novel solutions (air distribution)
  • Filtration
  • Portable air cleaners

• Drivers of indoor microbiological exposure
  • Moisture, dampness, new solutions

• Cleaning, hygiene, and prevention of disease transmission
  • Surface contamination, air quality
  • Self-cleaning and antimicrobial surfaces
  • Disinfection