Register today for SyracuseCoE's February 2025 Research & Technology Forum, featuring a talk from Professor Pawel Wargocki, Technical University of Denmark.

A healthy building should not only secure the health of the building occupants but also create conditions that are optimal for cognitive performance. This lecture will discuss what the optimal conditions are and the underlying mechanisms connecting the environment in buildings, its quality, and cognitive performance. The lecture will attempt to provide solutions. Another aspect discussed will be sleep quality and the connection to bedroom environmental quality. Sleep is essential for health, so healthy buildings must not disturb sleep. Finally, this presentation will argue that healthy buildings are part of the decarbonization processes and an essential element of achieving sustainable development.

About the Speaker
Pawel Wargocki is a professor at the Technical University of Denmark. He is an ISIAQ, REHVA, and ASHRAE Fellow. He is an academic teacher, scientist, industry consultant, and IAQ expert. He is a mechanical engineer by education. He has expertise in environmental psychology, physiology, and exposure monitoring and more than 30 years of experience in research on human requirements in indoor environments. He graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology in Poland and received his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Denmark, where he has been teaching and performing research ever since. He is known for his seminal work demonstrating that poor indoor environmental quality affects the performance of office work and learning. This and other research work influenced requirements for ventilation and air cleaning. Recent research includes studies on human emissions, sleep quality, the development of IEQ rating schemes, the performance of green buildings, solutions for reducing infection risk and air cleaning, and interactions between different indoor environmental domains. He has trained and educated numerous students and scholars. He has collaborated with leading research institutions, universities, and industrial partners worldwide, such as the National University of Singapore, Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, Syracuse Center of Excellence, United Technologies, Velux, Boeing and Google. He was President and long-standing board member of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ), President of the ISIAQ Academy of Fellows (previously Academy of Indoor Air Sciences), Vice President of the Indoor Air 2008 conference, and Chair of several ASHRAE committees. He has been invited to many conferences to give a plenary talk and received several awards for his work, including the Rockwool Award for Young Researchers, the ASHRAE Ralph Nevins Award, ISIAQ’s Yaglou Award, and the Indoor Air Journal Best Paper Awards. He published extensively (h- index=56).