The executive processes and results of three major objectives in current project were as follow:
The ‘Building Investigation Checklist’ was developed based on other worldwide versions and including building information ＆ characteristics, ventilation system, behaviors of occupants and illustration of floor plan. The results of reference review for the 2nd Public Places List showed that indoor air pollutants are significantly affected by the building characteristics, human activities and outdoor sources. The ‘White Paper’, contained seven chapters and described about the development of IAQ Management Act and current IAQ situations in Taiwan, was finalized through the review process and art editing. According to the investigation of air quality in the selected 6 samples of the 2nd Public Places List, only the gym with the bacterial concentrations exceeding the standrad of 1500 CFU/m3 which might due to its ventilation system and number of people inside. This study adopted the neighboring PM2.5 level derived from GIS Kriging and then included in the land use regression model to predict the indoor profiles of PM2.5. The final predictive model (R2 = 64%) was included kriging daily-averaged PM2.5 from air monitiorng, month, numbers of landfill within 3000 meter of radius, and numberd of river within 3000 m of radius.
In this study, indoor PAEs partitioning between the gas, particle (PM) and settled dust were investigated in ten public places. Results showed that the most detected gaseous and particle-bound PAE was DEHP. The indoor dust levels of DEHP, DNOP, DINP and DIDP were higher than that for other PAEs. The estimated daily intakes (ingestion, inhalation and skin contact) of the target phthalates for adults were lower than TDIs of the EU-CSTEE. The VOCs, formaldehyde and ozone levels in those public places were under Taiwan's indoor air quality standards.
We were grateful to the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate for choosing the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) and the Taiwan Society of Indoor Environmental Quality (TSIEQ) to co-organize this unique conference during 9/2-9/5 in 2017. The conference theme is “Breaking the Asia-Pacific Countries' barriers to Climate Adaptation, and Sustainable Development” with a heavy emphasis on the Climate Change Impacts Indoor Environment, HVAC System Performance and Efficiency, Building and Materials, Design, Construction, Performance, Politics, Policy ＆ Law, Innovation Measurement and Modelling, Health Assessment and many more. The Congress had received 277 participants including 124 from Taiwan. Total number of accepted abstracts at HB2017 Asia Conference was 192 (115 oral and 77 poster presentation). Each extend abstract is also open to download on the official website. There are eight fantastic plenary speakers with diverse backgrounds ranging from mechanical engineering, biology to architecture. We also integrate some suggestion from the submission papers for the corresponding government department.
