The Honourable Amanda Rishworth, Federal Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, and Ms. Madonna Jarrett, Member for Brisbane visited ILAQH and THRIVE, at QUT (Queensland University of Technology) on April 14 to learn about safe indoor air for Australian workers.
During the visit, we presented ILAQH’s achievements, its international role as a WHO Collaborating Centre for over two decades, our long-standing collaboration with local and federal governments, and our scientific achievements and contributions to the interdisciplinary field of air quality and its impact on health and the environment.
Our Centre Director, Professor Lidia Morawska, briefed the Ministers on one of THRIVE’s most significant projects from a policy perspective: P-Block Project “The first the first building in the world to meet the proposed IAQ standards”. Our team then gave visitors a tour of our laboratories and emphasised our research on particles from human respiratory activities, which laid the scientific basis for understanding airborne infection transmission, and current research on low-cost sensors for indoor air quality compliance monitoring.
We hope that the insights from this visit will contribute to the Government’s efforts to improve air quality for Australian workers in indoor public spaces.
👉For more information about the ILAQH: https://research.qut.edu.au/ilaqh/
👉 For more information about THRIVE: https://thriveiaq.com/
👉 For more information about the P-Block Project: https://pblockproject.com/
Australian Research Council (ARC)
