We are very excited to unveil and launch the State of Indoor Air in Australia 2025 Report!
Australia has been producing State of the Environment reports for more than two decades, yet it has not, until this report, undertaken to quantify the state of indoor air. The scientific evidence of the importance of indoor air quality (IAQ) for occupant health is unequivocable, as is the evidence quantifying the health, social and economic costs of poor IAQ. Translating this evidence into policy and practice is challenging in the absence of data about the current status of air inside Australian buildings of all types.
The data presented in this report is helpful in:
👉 providing insights into the range of IAQ conditions in different building classes over time;
👉 highlighting some of the key contributors to, and impacts of, poor air quality;
👉 quantifying the importance of source control, ventilation and filtration as strategies for improving IAQ;
👉 presenting multi-disciplinary approaches in study design and implementation; and
👉 providing solutions or strategies that could be applied to buildings of the same class, or between buildings in different classifications.
This report acts as a baseline report for IAQ and as a catalyst for multi-jurisdictional and transdisciplinary discussion and debate that leads to the development and implementation of a national strategy for IAQ. It is hoped that this report will be augmented periodically with more data as it becomes available, enabling improvements in indoor air quality to be tracked over time, and the impact of interventions to be evaluated.
Led and authored by A/Prof Wendy Miller and D/Prof Lidia Morawska, this is the first national report to collate the scientific evidence of IAQ in Australian buildings.
