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Health & Wellbeing
Understanding Indoor Environmental Quality
Protecting student and teacher health includes ensuring a clean and healthy indoor environment in the school, as well as providing programs and services for good nutrition and physical activity. Paying attention to health in schools has animpact on well-being and learning. The costs of poor indoor environmental and air quality in schools, including higher absenteeism and increased respiratory ailments, have generally been “hidden” in sick days, lower teacher and staffproductivity, lower student motivation, slower learning, lower tests scores, increased medical costs, and lowered lifelong achievement and earnings.
indoor air quality
We know that specific aspects of indoor air quality (IAQ) —such as the amount of CO2, Volatile Organic Compounds, (VOCs), Mould particulates and humidity in the air—have demonstrable impacts on student learning and human health more generally...
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Daylighting
A classroom for school children should not only be designed for high academic performance, but also for the health and wellbeing of students and staff. With school students spending approximately 200 days per year at school and around 5-6 hours a day in classrooms...
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Human Centric Lighting
Human-centric lighting is the practice of illuminating a space with light fixtures that mimic the pattern of natural light. The human body craves natural light as there are several benefits to sunlight. It nourishes the body with vitamin D, which helps calcium absorption...
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Water Purification
Water purification is a very important process for our daily lives in order for overall good health & wellbeing. Almost 70% of our body is made up of water, so it is very important to consume safe and clean water on a daily basis. Understanding the municipal water suppliers...
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Vaping Detection
According to a 2022 study, 32% of New South Wales teenagers aged between 14 and 17 years have tried vaping at least once. A 2017 national study found 13% of 12 to 17-year-olds had tried it. What is vaping and why is it so dangerous? E-cigarettes or “vapes” are battery-powered...
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Improving the Well Concept
Children are growing, their organs are developing, and they breathe more air relative to their body size than adults, and as a result sustain greater health problems and risks than adults from toxics and pollutants common in schools. The costs of poor indoor environmental and air quality in schools, including higher absenteeism and increased respiratory ailments, have generally been “hidden” in sick days, lower teacher and staff productivity, lower student motivation, slower learning, lower tests scores, increased medical costs, and lowered lifelong achievement and earnings.
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