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The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Introduction to Indoor Air Quality

Course Overview: https://youtu.be/LLVb4FOn4uU This course provides a basic knowledge of an emerging area – Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in buildings. Learners will realize the importance of maintaining proper IAQ. Characteristics associated with indoor air contaminants (IAC) are demonstrated, such as • Particulate matters (PM2.5, PM10) • Radon • Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) • Asbestos • Bio-aerosols, and more Safe exposure levels, resulting health effects, measurement techniques, mitigate and control measures of these IAC are discussed. Other important areas related to IAQ such as building ventilation systems, indoor flow characteristics, sick building syndrome, and thermal comfort are also covered in this course.

Status: Environmental Monitoring
Status: Environment Health And Safety
BeginnerCourse12 hours

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SB

Reviewed Jul 27, 2020

Learned a lot. The topics were well explained. The quizzes helped me in further clarifying what I have learned. Also there are discussion forums where you can discuss and learn a lot

KC

Reviewed Jul 5, 2018

Excellent course, very well delivered and very informative. I would love to see it expanded even to a 5 or 6 week course to go a bit more in depth on some of the topics.

DJ

Reviewed Jan 14, 2026

This course was very helpful in my day-to-day job. It expanded my knowledge on issues that I was blind to. I highly recommend this course to anyone.

SP

Reviewed Jul 1, 2020

This course is very useful for learning the basics of indoor air qualities and factors affecting and their measurement instruments.

AP

Reviewed Jan 19, 2021

The quizzes are the best one I've ever seen here, they were amazingly appropiate to the topics we learned and provided examples so we could answer in a more realistic scenario

SE

Reviewed May 3, 2019

Great course.Good lecturers.Upgraded my skills on IAQ management. Kudos to Coursera.Kudos to Hong Kong School of Science and Technology

BS

Reviewed Aug 2, 2020

first of all i would like to say thanks to the IAQ team and Coursera to avail this course. I learned much more informative things related to this course.

CH

Reviewed Aug 30, 2022

It's an informative course and suitable for beginners. I would highly recommend for those who are working in the green building or operation of building and looking for a very basic course.

KH

Reviewed Aug 15, 2020

The course introduced IAQ in a manner that no one can do it better. However, I did not understand the concept behind the grading of the post-course survey.

SU

Reviewed Jul 19, 2022

It is a very informative course. I highly recommend this course for all and especially for the HVAC and building facilities management related people.

RA

Reviewed Jun 17, 2021

This course helped me a lot, especially in my chosen career. It helped me to understand air quality and how to apply proper ventilation. I enjoyed it!

SK

Reviewed Sep 21, 2020

A good, informative and compact course. Helped me to gain knowledge in this field. This course is good for mechanical engineers, architects, etc. Especially for HVAC engineers.

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