The Impact of Indoor Air Quality on Children’s Learning

As the indoor air quality crisis continues, it seems it’s more than just children’s health being affected but their learning performance too.

The technical term ‘BB101’ refers to the quality of air throughout a building. This includes planning, design, construction, occupation and the ongoing maintenance. Since its first publishing in 2006, the Department for Education has made revisions, highlighting improvements on ventilation, thermal comfort and indoor air quality.

These factors have a significantly negative impact on children’s welfare. Not only do they oppose a direct threat to their health but also on their learning capabilities, including reducing their reading skills, attention levels and overall concentration. This is extremely important in regards to exam performance.

So how do schools solve these issues? The answer is simple: with the award-winning Ingenious Air® System. It combines comfortable, draught-free cooling and heating with air and surface purification. This creates the ultimate, balanced and healthy indoor environment, which improves health and concentration.

The cooling option creates an even, comfortable and draught-free indoor environment. In addition, the heating option uses a natural, energy efficient de-stratification effect. This reuses warmed air that is usually trapped at a high level and brings it back down to floor level.

In a crowded school, integrating high specification air purification dramatically reduces all types of serious airborne pollutants. Air purification also removes unpleasant odours, which can have the potential benefit of reducing the amount of polluted outside air required.

Complete the system with surface purification, powered by Provilan® to create the ultimate wellness solution. Probiotics are added to the air stream to add balance by replenishing the ‘good’ bacteria. These natural microorganisms help reduce infectious diseases by overpopulating bad bacteria in common areas such as classrooms, bathrooms and lunch halls.

Backed by years of experience, research and development and various case studies, The Ingenious Air® System can help schools, colleges, universities and other educational facilities.

B. Beato-Arribas, BSRIA. (2018). HVN Plus Magazine, July Issue: Indoor environmental quality testing on schools. Published July 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2018.