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History and Perspective on Indoor Air Quality Research

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Modern indoor air science started in the 1970s. The reasons for separating the modern and old eras are: (1) building energy conservation became important due to the oil embargo in the Middle East in 1973 that had a great impact on building design and operation and in turn indoor air quality; (2) ambient air pollution became a topic of concern in many developed countries; (3) “modern diseases” were found to be associated with “modern exposure” during this period; (4) many new computational and measurement technologies such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), respectively, occurred with the development of computer and the related technologies; and (5) a series of international societies and conferences related to indoor air science with worldwide impact were launched and recognized beginning in the 1970s. Modern indoor air science has been driven by two forces. One driver is the demands to fix important indoor air problems arising from a broad variety of pollutants: radon, asbestos, environmental tobacco smoke, particles (PM10, PM2.5, ultrafine particles), formaldehyde, volatile organic compounds, semi-volatile organic compounds, house dust mites, mold, bacteria, and associated health effects, e.g., sick building syndrome symptoms, asthma and allergies, Legionnaires’ disease, lung cancer, and airborne infections such as SARS and nowadays COVID-2019. The second driver is the new technologies such as CFD, big data analysis, advanced chemical analytical capability, sensing, control, and human biomarker analysis, which have contributed greatly to modern indoor air science. By understanding the influences of these two drivers on the development of indoor air science over the past decades, we can also perceive its future. In this first chapter, we summarize the history of indoor air science and outline some major challenges for the coming years.

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    Yinping Zhang

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    Yinping Zhang

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    Yinping Zhang

  2. Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA

    Philip K. Hopke

  3. Scientific and Technical Centre for Building (CSTB), Marne-La-Vallée, France

    Corinne Mandin

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Table A1 1st -16th Indoor Air International Conferences from 1978 to 2020
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Table A2 Executive committee of the Academy of Fellows of ISIAQ (1991–2022)
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Table A3 Presidents of ISIAQ (1992–2022)
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Zhang, Y., Hopke, P.K., Mandin, C. (2022). History and Perspective on Indoor Air Quality Research. In: Zhang, Y., Hopke, P.K., Mandin, C. (eds) Handbook of Indoor Air Quality. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5155-5_1-1

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