Read about the World Health Organizations view on indoor air quality, health impacts, broader impacts, interventions, goals, and reports. 

The Scandic Hotel Group are leaders in sustainability.  Read more about their sustainability practices on their website. 

Read more about Indoor Air Quality initiatives for Hotels at GreenHotelier.org.

This years Clean Tech Competition is titled "Creating a Greener Future", the focus is for you to identify a specific problem associated with buildings or homes, building materials, problems associated with efficiency, damage mitigation or indoor environmental quality.  The first step in your project will be to determine a problem then research and describe the scale of the problem and the affected populations.  The second portion of the project will be to design a solution that uses clean technology to address the issue.

The competition website outlines sick building syndrome as a key issue to human health.  Watch the video below for a synopsis of SBS, then read the article The Sick Building Syndrome by Sumedha M. Joshi from the Indian Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine.

Let Ms. Adams know by Wednesday March 1st if you would like to register for the competition.