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Professor Alan Hedge
Cornell University and
Syracuse University

Education and the Built Environment

If you could improve your child's learning experience through improvements in the built environment...would you?

Research shows, indoor environmental quality reduces errors, improves work and promotes learning.

"...air quality and temperatures in classrooms are important factors in the learning process and improving them should be given as much priority as improving teaching materials and methods."

ASHRAE Journal Vol. 48, Oct. 2006.

Suggested Reading: ASHRAE 1257-RP, Indoor Environmental Effects On The Performance Of School Work By Children

Sponsoring Technical Committee: TC 2.1 Physiology and Human Environment Contractor: International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy (ICIEE) Department of Mechanical Engineering (MEK) Technical University of Denmark (DTU) Principal Investigators: David P. Wyon, Ph.D., Pawel Wargocki, Ph.D.

ASHRAE 1257-RP includes these Papers:

“The effects of outdoor air supply rate and supply air filter condition in classrooms on the performance of schoolwork by children”

“The effects of moderately raised classroom temperatures and classroom ventilation rate on the performance of schoolwork by children”

“The effects of electrostatic particle filtration and supply air filter condition in classrooms on the performance of schoolwork by children”

“Improving classroom air quality and reducing even quite moderately elevated classroom temperatures can help children to perform better in school”

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