Indoor climate change?
Workshop description
Subject: Learn about indoor climate measurements and their importance for good indoor air quality.
Come to the workshop to try out a surface moisture meter, thermometer, room VOC concentration and air humidity meter, and thermal camera. Find cold bridges in structures and examine the surface cleanliness of your own phone.
Indoor air quality issues are now being discussed more than ever, and many causes have already been identified. Beyond the typical moisture and mold damage, attention is turning to microbes in both homes and outdoor environments — not only harmful ones, but increasingly also beneficial ones. Are we cleaning ourselves sick? What can household microbes tell us? In the future, will we enrich indoor air with beneficial microbes, or is it enough to simply open the windows and step outside?
Nowadays, we measure many other aspects of indoor air as well. Test organic residues on different surfaces, and study the pressure difference between a building’s interior and exterior envelope to see what it means in practice. You’ll also examine particle and carbon dioxide levels in indoor air. These tasks — and many more — are part of an indoor air researcher’s everyday work. Will you be one of us?
Organiser: Civil engineering research unit, Faculty of Technology, University of Oulu
Language: Finnish
Time: 12:30-13:30 (1st group) and 14:00-15:00 (2nd group)
The maximum amount of participants is 8 people/group.