ASHRAE, AIVC issue final call for papers for IEQ 2025 conference in Canada

The conference, titled ‘Rising to New Challenges: Linking IEQ to a Sustainable Future’, will explore how indoor environmental quality (IEQ) impacts building occupants while also addressing the increasing demand for resilient structures in the face of a changing climate. The submission deadline is November 11, 2024.

The event in Montreal, Canada. will offer a platform for leading researchers and practitioners to present their innovative solutions for improving IEQ and advancing sustainability.

ASHRAE, along with AIVC (Air infiltration and Ventilation Centre) are issuing a final call for papers for the IEQ (Indoor Environmental Quality) 2025 Conference, to be scheduled for September 24-26, 2025. Industry professionals, researchers and experts are invited to submit abstracts by November 11, 2024.

The conference, themed “Rising to New Challenges: Connecting IEQ to a Sustainable Future,” will focus on how indoor environmental quality (IEQ) affects occupants while addressing the growing need for building resilience amid a changing climate. 

Requested topic areas include:

• Performance Metrics: For all aspects of IEQ
• Occupant Behaviour: How behavior impacts IEQ and how IEQ impacts behaviour – psychological dimensions of IEQ
• Smart Sensors, Data and Controls: Sensor properties, data management, cybersecurity, applications, commissioning, equivalence
• Resilience and IEQ: Responding to climate change and disasters
• Ventilation: Mechanical, passive, natural and hybrid systems
• Air Tightness: Trends, methods and impacts
• Thermal Comfort: Dynamic approaches, health impacts and trends
• The Environment Around Us: Acoustics, lighting, glazing, interiors and impacts upon wellness
• Policy and Standards: Trends, impacts, implications
• HVAC and IEQ in a post-COVID world
• Ventilation and building decarbonisation
• Lighting and Acoustics: How can the outside be brought inside or vice versa Lighting Performance and Metrics • Noise: How the environmental impact can be mitigated
• Indoor Air Quality Adaptation of Indigenous/Tribal Living

Authors have the option to submit a short abstract for either a conference paper (8-page manuscript) or an extended abstract (3-page manuscript). Submissions are due November 11, 2024. If accepted, complete manuscript submissions are due March 10, 2025.

Authors of accepted papers may be invited to submit expanded papers for publication consideration in Science and Technology for the Built Environment, ASHRAE’s journal for archival research. For more information on the call for papers, including additional author benefits, or to submit an abstract, visit ashrae.org/IEQ2025.