Overview
Increasing research shows that good air quality influences everything from workplace productivity to classroom behaviour, cognitive function to patient recovery. As organisations seek to improve wellbeing and building performance, it falls on workplace and facilities management (WFM) to devise and implement the strategies to optimise air quality. What does a healthy set up look like? How can key stakeholders be convinced of the business case for good air quality? Plus, how does optimising air quality relate to other initiatives, including digital innovation and team collaboration initiatives?
Join IWFM and Equans for a short presentation on why air quality matters for people’s health, followed by an expert panel discussion on the above queries and much more, including:
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Why good air quality matters: providing clarity on the impact and WFM’s role
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How WFM enables good air quality, what good looks like and the business case
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How we can integrate technology, change perceptions around data and how it can provide tangible outputs in air quality optimisation.
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The need to collaborate and share insights to shape best practices
If you’re interested in exploring the topic in advance of the webinar, then please read our Roundtable report with Dyson here >
Joining us on the panel are:
Speakers
Lewis Chenery
Lewis Chenery is a Chartered Environmentalist and sustainability specialist with over 12 years experience in the built environment sector. He has an extensive background working across construction, infrastructure, aviation, and facilities management industries, both as a consultant and in-house expert.
Currently, Lewis is the Head of Environment & Sustainability at Equans UK & Ireland. In this role, he leads on sustainability, a wide range of programmes and provides support to projects in healthcare, education, homeland security, local government, and commercial sectors.
His responsibilities include designing and delivering corporate and client sustainability strategies, ensuring legislative compliance, and scoping emerging technologies for the business to deliver sustainable outcomes.
Greg Davies
Greg has worked for over 32 years in health, safety and environmental compliance management covering aspects including Legionella, H&S, fire, asbestos, building environment quality, energy, waste and sustainability.
A degree-qualified microbiologist and registered expert witness, he joined Assurity Consulting in 1989. Greg is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health, Specialist Member of the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management (IIRSM) and currently Chair’s both the IWFM Sustainability Special Interest Group and IIRSM London Branch committee
Greg is a regular blogger and contributor to our industry press, with over 250 articles published on environmental management/sustainability, health and safety and risk. He chaired the CIBSE committee that revised TM13, was the author of the original IWFM good practise guide to risk management and has been survey lead for the IWFM sustainability in FM survey for the last 8 years.
On subjects ranging from water management to the “Red Tape Challenge” Greg has also spoken at events for, or been involved with, organisations including Defra, PHE, IIRSM, DECC, BSC, RICS, CIEH, BSRIA, CIBSE, IWFM, IOSH, CIEH and the London Health and Safety Group
Sofie Hooper
Sofie Hooper leads on the IWFM’s wider policy and public affairs work, helping to raise the voice of the Institute, its members and the wider workplace and facilities management sector. She engages with stakeholders to ensure best practice is taken on board and concerns affecting workplace and facilities professionals are mitigated.
Covering a wide range of activities and areas, sustainability, workplace and building safety form the core agenda. Sofie has been leading on IWFM’s Building Safety Manager work programme, feeding into the legislative process towards the Building Safety Bill. She provided the Secretariat for the Competence Steering Group’s Working Group 8, which developed the Building Safety Managers competence framework.
In addition to being the co-author of the Group’s report, Safer people, safer homes: Building Safety Management, she is a regular contributor to Facilitate. Building on WG8’s recommendations, Sofie is a part of the Interim Executive of the Building Safety Alliance, a cross sector collaboration which is working to improve holistic building safety competence across the occupation phase. She is also a part of the Steering Committee for the DLUCH sponsored PAS 8673, which is setting the competence specification for Building Safety Managers.
Dr Katie Knight
Panellist, Paediatric Emergency Medicine Consultant, North Middlesex Hospital, RCPCH Climate Change Working Group
Katie is a Paediatric Emergency Medicine Consultant in the North Middlesex Hospital and has taken a lead in forming a Sustainability Group within her trust. Working together they try to collaborate with the Trust to ensure that the site of the Trust and its practices follow green principles in how the site is organised and in its procurement.
Katie is passionate about climate change and tells us that many of the younger generation of doctors are increasingly feeling this way as they see the emergency of climate change threatening the health of the children they work with. Katie is the co-founder of Women Speakers in Healthcare, 2018-19 National Medical Director's Clinical Fellow, and founder and lead editor of www.paediatricfoam.com.