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osa Kissi-Debrah’s nine-year-old daughter Ella died in 2013 following three years of seizures and repeated visits to hospitals. She lived close to one of London’s most polluted roads and her case is the subject of an ongoing High Court inquest that could revolutionise medical understanding of the links between air pollution and respiratory illness. Kissi-Debrah, who founded the Ella Roberta Foundation (www.ellaroberta.org) in memory of her daughter, was the headline speaker during a special Health & Wellbeing in Buildings seminar during the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) annual conference in London.


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“While we will continue the fight for local and central government to take proper measures to reduce air pollution in our cities; we will also push building owners and operators to look at how they can make their buildings cleaner and safer for us and our children,” said Kissi-Debrah, who was recently appointed the first World Health Organisation (WHO) advocate for health & air quality.


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“Indoor air can often be as much as five times more polluted than outdoor air due to concentrations and the mixture of sources of contamination, but this is often forgotten in the wider air quality debate,” said Kissi- Debrah. “Building owners and managers owe it to their occupiers to draw on all the technical resources and expertise of the building engineering sector to turn indoor spaces into safe havens where people can breathe clean, healthy air.”


The conference session was chaired by Nathan Wood of IAQ specialist firm


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Leading asthma campaigner calls for building ‘safe havens’ campaign


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Farmwood, who applauded recent efforts in London to tackle pollution from transport including dramatic reductions in NO2 emissions inside the Ultra Low Emissions Zone introduced by Mayor Sadiq Khan. “It is great to see the work being undertaken to tackle outdoor pollution,” said Wood, who is also chair of the BESA Health & Wellbeing in Buildings group. “We want to galvanise industry and politicians to work together to promote the concept of buildings as safe havens from pollution so people can be protected right now. Good IAQ measures can be adopted in every existing building quickly and relatively cheaply.”


“The government has a once in a generation opportunity to enshrine IAQ in law by revising the draft Environment Bill to make sure this crucial aspect is included.”


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Coolair appointed for landmark office development in Gloucester


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ir conditioning specialist Coolair Equipment Ltd is to bring the latest energy efficient heating and cooling technology to a stunning new landmark office development in Gloucester.


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The company’s Midlands office in Cannock has secured a contract worth more than £300,000 to install an air conditioning system with heat recovery that will simultaneously heat and cool different areas of the building forming the new


apex of Gloucester Business Park at Brockworth.


The commission from M&E building services contractor Spie UK is aimed at creating a three-storey building that is both visually exciting and technologically advanced. Coolair Equipment will equip the building with a new Hitachi IVX VRF (variable refrigerant flow) system combined with Daikin DX (direct expansion) condensers to serve the building’s AHUs (air handling units).


The VRF systems will deliver exactly the right amount of


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refrigerant to ceiling void ducted FCUs (fan coil units) which in turn will diffuse air at the required temperature to achieve a comfortable climate in each room all year round.


The discreet, quiet running and energy efficient system is specially designed to use the rejected heat from cooling sun-facing spaces to heat non-sun-facing areas simultaneously. It also has the added advantages of reducing the building’s carbon emissions and keeping operating costs low.


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