Conference Summary: 5th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate

Abstract The 5th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate: INDOOR AIR '90 continued a series of international scientific conferences begun in 1978 on a complex, interdisciplinary subject that is increasingly recognized to be of importance to human comfort, health, and productivity and which has important implications for building design and furnishing, office equipment, appliances, cleaning, heating, ventilating, humidifying, and air-conditioning. The 5th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate: INDOOR AIR '90, held in Toronto from July 29-August 3, 1990, had 48 national and international sponsoring agencies and associations. Eighty scientists were involved in the organization of the program and the review of some 750 abstracts and 550 papers. Nearly 5000 persons from more than 50 nations corresponded with the Conference Secretariat and some 1300 scientists, practitioners, and policy-makers from 35 nations attended. There were another 120 accompanying persons and sever...