GIANT: Global trends in IAQ: Novel technologies, Competence and Business

About the project

The GIANT project aims to scientifically understand the possibilities for advanced indoor air quality monitoring and exposure mitigation strategies. The multidisciplinary project consortium consists of research organizations, municipalities and companies as well as collaboration with research groups internationally. The expertise and infrastructures of the consortium include understanding and measurements of the smallest ultrafine particles, volatile organic compounds, black carbon, and secondary aerosols; cell-level toxicity and population-level health impacts; new measurement methods and processes of commercialization; IoT technologies, development of air quality models and related visualization; energy efficiency, ventilation systems, and filtration. 

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Air pollution is known to have extensive health impacts, ranging from acute lower respiratory and cardiac illnesses to cancers, strokes, and other brain effects, and premature mortality. The World Bank estimated that in 2013 ambient and household air pollution costs amounted to $5.11 trillion (The World Bank & Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, 2016). There is mounting evidence that currently unregulated pollutants have significant health consequences, and therefore recent World Health Organization recommendations clearly state that to prevent extensive health impacts of poor air quality, it is important to build capacity and start systematic measurements of UFP and BC in addition to existing air quality parameters (PM, trace gases), in both indoor and outdoor environments.