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The mother of a young girl who died from an asthma attack linked to air pollution is to demand action from the building engineering sector and politicians at an industry conference in November<\/h2>\n

The event will see the launch of a \u2018Safe Havens\u2019 campaign (#BuildingSafeHavens) designed to promote the concept of buildings being engineered to protect occupants from the hazards of air pollution by creating indoor clean air zones.<\/p>\n

Rosa Kissi-Debrah\u2019s 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\u2019s most polluted roads<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

Kissi-Debrah, who founded the Ella Roberta Foundation<\/a> in memory of her daughter, will be the headline speaker during a special Health & Wellbeing in Buildings seminar during the Building Engineering Services Association<\/a> (BESA) annual conference in London on 21 November.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile 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,\u201d said Kissi-Debrah, who was recently appointed the first World Health Organisation<\/a> (WHO) advocate for health & air quality.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have come to expect buildings to be able to keep us cooler on hot days and warmer on cold ones; so why should we not also expect them to be able to provide a clean air environment when pollution is rising outside?\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Crisis<\/h3>\n

Kissi-Debrah pointed out that people spend between 80 and 90% of their time indoors making indoor air quality (IAQ) one of the country\u2019s most pressing health issues. The British Lung Foundation recently dubbed air pollution as Britain\u2019s greatest \u201chealth crisis\u201d on a par with the level of harm caused by smoking and costing the NHS billions of pounds every year.<\/p>\n

Kissi-Debrah said: \u201cIndoor 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cBuilding 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayor Sadiq Khan has pledged to meet tough WHO guidelines for fine particulate matter (PM2.5) by 2030 so long as the government amends its draft Environment Bill to adopt this target.<\/p>\n

Wood, chair of the BESA Health & Wellbeing in Buildings group, said: \u201cIt is great to see the work being undertaken to tackle outdoor pollution, but this will take many years to show lasting benefits.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the meantime, 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 \u2013 our conference session will demonstrate how.<\/p>\n

\u201cRosa\u2019s tragic human experience of the worst possible impacts of air pollution should serve as a major motivation for our industry. It should also remind anyone involved in designing and maintaining buildings that they have a huge responsibility for the safety and welfare of occupants.”<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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