Problems with classroom air quality

Author: Professor David Wyon

Classrooms that are clean, warm and dry are not good enough.

Scandinavian countries pride themselves on providing good working conditions for all. In buildings where adults work, they have largely succeeded, but in places where children work - in the classrooms where children spend ten years of their lives tackling new and unfamiliar tasks every day - it turns out that they could do much better.

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About the author

Professor David Wyon is known for his behavioural research into indoor environmental effects on people. In 40 years of field and laboratory experiments he has shown conclusively that quite small differences in such factors as temperature, humidity, air quality and noise can have
large effects in practice on health, comfort and productivity.