Department of Building Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Indoor Air. 2017 Jul;27(4):708-724. doi: 10.1111/ina.12368. Epub 2017 Feb 27.
The scientific articles and Indoor Air conference publications of the indoor air sciences (IAS) during the last 50 years are summarized. In total 7524 presentations, from 79 countries, have been made at Indoor Air conferences held between 1978 (49 presentations) and 2014 (1049 presentations). In the Web of Science, 26 992 articles on indoor air research (with the word "indoor" as a search term) have been found (as of 1 Jan 2016) of which 70% were published during the last 10 years. The modern scientific history started in the 1970s with a question: "did indoor air pose a threat to health as did outdoor air?" Soon it was recognized that indoor air is more important, from a health point of view, than outdoor air. Topics of concern were first radon, environmental tobacco smoke, and lung cancer, followed by volatile organic compounds, formaldehyde and sick building syndrome, house dust-mites, asthma and allergies, Legionnaires disease, and other airborne infections. Later emerged dampness/mold-associated allergies and today's concern with "modern exposures-modern diseases." Ventilation, thermal comfort, indoor air chemistry, semi-volatile organic compounds, building simulation by computational fluid dynamics, and fine particulate matter are common topics today. From their beginning in Denmark and Sweden, then in the USA, the indoor air sciences now show increasing activity in East and Southeast Asia.
总结了过去 50 年来室内空气科学（IAS）的科学文章和室内空气会议出版物。在 1978 年（49 次演讲）至 2014 年（1049 次演讲）期间举行的室内空气会议上，来自 79 个国家的 7524 次演讲。在 Web of Science 上，共找到 26992 篇关于室内空气研究的文章（以“室内”作为搜索词）（截至 2016 年 1 月 1 日），其中 70%是在过去 10 年发表的。现代科学史始于 20 世纪 70 年代，当时的问题是：“室内空气是否像室外空气一样对健康构成威胁？”很快就认识到，从健康的角度来看，室内空气比室外空气更为重要。首先关注的是氡、环境烟草烟雾和肺癌，其次是挥发性有机化合物、甲醛和病态建筑综合征、屋尘螨、哮喘和过敏、军团病以及其他空气传播感染。后来出现了与潮湿/霉菌相关的过敏症，以及如今对“现代暴露-现代疾病”的关注。通风、热舒适、室内空气化学、半挥发性有机化合物、通过计算流体动力学进行建筑模拟以及细颗粒物是当今的常见主题。室内空气科学从丹麦和瑞典开始，然后在美国，现在在东亚和东南亚地区的活动日益增加。
