Conference Agenda
Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).
This is a preliminary schedule. Workshops, keynotes, and additional conference papers and extended abstracts will be added to the agenda in the future.
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| Location: Opus Ballroom |
| Date: Wednesday, 24/Sept/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 9:30am |
Keynote 1: Community Engaged Frameworks lead to Healthy and Sustainable Indoor Environments Location: Opus Ballroom |
| 9:30am - 10:30am |
Psychology and Physiology of the Indoor Environment Location: Opus Ballroom Psychology of Indoor Environmental Quality (Dis)comfort and Health-Induced Stress: the Need for Unravelling their Effects Why Thermal Comfort Is Elusive – The Role of Socio-Cultural Factors |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
Indigenous Perspectives And Community-Led Approaches To Shaping Indoor Environments Location: Opus Ballroom Chair: Sarah Haines Presentations of the Workshop Two-Eyed Seeing And IEQ Challenges On-Reserves From Harvest to House: Centering community engagement and community led-approaches to housing Redefining Our Relationship To Building Materials Through Two-Eyed Seeing |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
Non-Energy Impacts: Exploring the Nexus of IEQ and Decarbonization in Residential Buildings Location: Opus Ballroom Chair: James McGrath Presentations of the Workshop Retrofitting and Ventilation: Challenges, Benefits and Lessons Learnt Beyond Energy Savings: Making the Link to Health and Decarbonization |
| 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
Indoor Contaminant Control Location: Opus Ballroom Analytical Evaluation of Far-UVC (222 nm) Air Disinfection Efficiency in Indoor Environments Using a Multi-Zonal Model The Effect of Ventilation Strategies on Indoor Air Pollution in a Home Built to Future Home Standards Investigate the Effect of Different Types of Ventilation on the Particle Exposure Risk in Classrooms. Evaluating the Efficacy of Portable Air Scrubbers in an Indoor Construction Lab |
| Date: Thursday, 25/Sept/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 9:30am |
Keynote 2: A Performance Based Rating Ecology for Residential IAQ Management from IEA-EBC Annex 86 Location: Opus Ballroom |
| 9:30am - 10:30am |
Canadian Indigenous Housing and Cross-World Radon Control Practices Location: Opus Ballroom IEQ in Extremely Cold Climates: A Multi-Method Study of Inuit Homes A Case Study On Indoor Environmental Quality In First Nations On-Reserve Housing In Saskatchewan Comparing Radon Remediation strategies : Training and Qualification Processes Across the World |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
Real-life examples of implementing 'resilience': applying ASHRAE Standard 241 "Control of Infectious Aerosols" and Guideline 44 "Protecting Building Occupants from Smoke During Wildfire" Location: Opus Ballroom Chair: Jelle Laverge Presentations of the Workshop Resilience As A New Paradigm For IEQ Assessment: A Short Introduction Quantitative Metrics For Resilience Case Study 1: applying ASHRAE Standard 241 "Control of Infectious Aerosols" Case Study 2: applying ASHRAE Guideline 44 "Protecting Building Occupants from Smoke During Wildfire" |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
Keynote 3: Health-based IAQ Design Location: Opus Ballroom |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
IEA EBC Annex 86: a Rating Ecology for IAQ Management in Residential Buildings Location: Opus Ballroom Chair: Jelle Laverge Presentations of the Workshop The other ˈdeɪli Opening Pandora's box The Magic Sponge of IAQ The ventilation IQ test |
| 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
IAQ Roadmap, IAQ Insights, and Bioaerosols Location: Opus Ballroom ACGIH Bioaerosols Book - Assessment And Control, 2nd Edition Indoor Air Quality Perceptions: Insights from a Cross-Sector Survey Policy and Regulatory Roadmap to Achieve Health-Based Indoor Air Quality Standards |
| Date: Friday, 26/Sept/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 9:30am |
Keynote 4: Healthy and Resilient Indoor Environments – Applied Research in Canadian Buildings Location: Opus Ballroom |
| 9:30am - 10:30am |
Preference-Based Control and Optimization Location: Opus Ballroom Algorithms for Deriving Occupant Preference Ranges in Automatic Control of Air Conditioners A Reinforcement Learning Model for Cooling Optimization in Existing Residential Apartment Building Field Implementation of Preference-based Building Thermal Control: Energy and Comfort Assessment |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
Bedroom Environmental Quality Impacts our Sleep, Health and Well-being Location: Opus Ballroom Chair: Chandra Sekhar Presentations of the Workshop Workshop Introduction Ventilation and Sleep Quality: The Need for Changing Residential Standards Sleep Quality and Skin Temperature Variation Using a Thermal Regulatory Mat Methods for Measurements of Sleep Quality: The Sleep Researcher Perspective Workshop Conclusion |