World Ventilation Day Round Table 2026
Five networks. One motion. You decide.
A joint event from the Healthy Buildings Network, HESTIA, Air Hub, BreatHE IN and the UK Indoor Environments Group.
Registration is open. Free to attend, and the joining link comes by email.
About the round table
To mark World Ventilation Day, five of the UK's indoor environment networks are coming together for a live online round table. Instead of another set of talks, we're putting one motion to the vote. Each network has three minutes and one slide to make its case, then challenges another network directly. You vote before and after. Will you change your mind?
The motion
This house believes the UK should set a legally binding indoor air quality limit now, before the evidence is complete.
Who is taking part
Each network puts up one speaker. Angharad Beckett chairs, and Sophie Burgess responds to the arguments as discussant.
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Healthy Buildings NetworkSpeaker to be confirmed
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HESTIADoug Booker
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Air HubAbigail Hathway
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BreatHE INBruño Fraga
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UKIEGSani Dimitroulopoulou
What to expect
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1
Opening vote on the motion
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2
Five three-minute provocations, one slide each
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3
A ring of challenges between the networks
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4
Your questions
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5
Commitments: what each network will do by World Ventilation Day 2027
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6
Closing vote, and the result
Who should come
Researchers, practitioners, housing providers, facilities and estates teams, policymakers, and anyone who cares about the air we breathe indoors.
The five networks
This round table is organised jointly. Each network puts up one speaker and makes its own case.
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Healthy Buildings Network (HBN)
A cross-disciplinary research and collaboration hub at the University of Leeds, focused on healthier, more sustainable built environments.
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HESTIA (Home Environment Solutions through Technology and Innovation for All)
Accelerating the creation of indoor home environments that meet Net Zero targets while promoting physical and mental health and wellbeing for all, considering the interface of technologies and social factors.
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Air Hub
Engineering healthy indoor environments, building research capacity to understand what is in particulate matter (PM2.5) inside, what its health impacts are, and what we should do about it.
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BreatHE IN (Building Healthier Environments Indoors)
Established to ensure that health is not an afterthought, but a central consideration in the transformation of the UK’s built environment.
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UK Indoor Environments Group (UKIEG)
A unique, independent and impartial multidisciplinary network of professionals working in the field of health, wellbeing and indoor environments.
Come and vote
Free and online. Friday 6 November 2026, 12:00 to 13:15 GMT.
Registration is open and free. We will email you the joining link.
Register for the round table