Keynote speech 5, main sponsor 2, Camfil, Tobias Zimmer: Clean Air a human right? – New WHO air quality guidelines and its impact on new guidelines for ventilation and filtration Passed
Wednesday April 24, 2024 13:20 - 13:50 Room K1
Main sponsor: Camfil Svenska AB
Industrial Keynote Speaker: Tobias Zimmer
Theme: Industrial Keynote Speaker
We spend about 90% of our time indoors, therefore good indoor air quality is even more important for our health and wellbeing than the outdoor air quality.
In 2021 the WHO published their new air quality guidelines, that recognized air pollution as the single biggest environmental threat to human health and proposed significantly lower limits for several key air pollutants like particulate matter (PM2.5), ozone and NO2 .
These new WHO limits directly affected several new European Guidelines for ventilation and filtration, leading to higher air filtration requirements to better protect people in indoor spaces from the outdoor air pollution.
Lecturers
Tobias Zimmer Industrial Keynote Speaker
Vice President Global Product Management and International Standards
Camfil AB Headquarters
Tobias Zimmer is an experienced air filter specialist with more than 20 years of experience in the international ventilation industry. Since 2009 Mr. Zimmer has been employed by Camfil, an industry leading air filter manufacturer based in Sweden. He has held various positions within the Camfil Group and his current position is Vice President Global Product Management and International Standards. Mr. Zimmer serves actively in numerous working groups of several international standard committees including ISO TC142 (Cleaning equipment for air and other gases), CEN TC195 (Air filters for general air cleaning), CEN TC156 (Ventilation for buildings). Mr Zimmer is the convenor of the WG7, Environmental product declarations for air cleaning equipment in CEN TC 195 as well as Vice Chairman of PC-Fil at Eurovent Certification and an advisory board member of the Waterloo Filtration Institute. In addition, he is active in various international ventilation & engineering industry associations and committees including Eurovent, REHVA, Eurovent Middle East, Eurovent International, VDMA and EHEDG. In this context, Mr. Zimmer co-authored several guidebooks and technical guidelines related to air filtration and ventilation.