With campuses opening but Omicron continuing university communities want managements to get health and safety right – including ventilation. QUT is on to it

The university’s Lidia Morawska is developing an air quality audit for internal facilities.

The project started at the Kelvin Grove and Gardens Point campuses last year.

The aim is, “to ensure excellent air quality, which would ensure a lower risk of infection of airborne viruses.”

And she should know. Professor Morawska lives and breathes (sorry) air quality. She was early to warn that  airborne transmission, more than contaminated surfaces, was the big COVID-19 risk indoors. Time Magazine named her one of 2021’s most influential people for her paradigm-shifting work.