#015 - Improving Indoor Air Quality with Gavriel Kleinwaks

Gavriel Kleinwaks

Gavriel is the Indoor Air Quality Lead (formerly Strategic Projects Lead) at 1Day Sooner

In this episode we discuss

• How Gavriel developed an interest in policy and the path she took

• How COVID challenge trials lead to 1Day Sooner focusing on indoor air quality

• The state of the indoor air quality field

• Interventions to improve indoor air quality: HVAC, filtration, sterilisation

• Ways to move the field forward

• How engineers can be involved in improving indoor air quality

Top resources

• Air Safety to Combat Global Catastrophic Biorisk report co-authored by Gavriel which provides an overview of indoor air quality interventions.

• AAAS Fellowship

• Don Milton's EMIT-2 registration

• Shelly Miller detailed modelling paper for transmission via air in buildings

• The Lancet COVID-19 Commission Task Force report on proposed Non-infectious Air Delivery Rates (NADR) for Reducing Exposure to Airborne Respiratory Infectious Diseases

• Healthy Buildings book

• ASHRAE standard 241: Control of Infectious Aerosols

Gavriel Kleinwaks

• 1Day Sooner

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavriel-kleinwaks-6a5398b0/

Timestamps

00:00:00 Intro
00:01:10 Gavriel
00:01:59 Gavriel's journey
00:15:50 Indoor air quality introduction
00:28:38 Technological interventions
00:40:55 UV technology
00:46:39 Safe Air Research Alliance
00:57:20 How engineering has helped her
01:00:16 How engineers can contribute to indoor air quality
01:05:03 Resources for learning more
01:07:53 What do you wish you had invented?
01:12:04 Outro