AirSuite™ for education

Acoustics, air quality and temperature all affect a student’s ability and willingness to learn, and indoor air quality has been correlated with test score performance. A classroom that is stuffy by mid-morning, too cold in winter or too loud to concentrate in is working against the teaching happening inside it — and none of that shows up in a maintenance schedule. High concentrations of pollutants compound it, exacerbating respiratory illness, fatigue, absenteeism and attention problems.

Improving conditions at national scale is largely a prioritisation problem. With thousands of classrooms of different ages, sizes and climates, the hard part is knowing where to intervene, and where money and time will do the most good.

AirSuite was built to answer exactly that question, and has been deployed across New Zealand schools with the Ministry of Education for several years.

AirSuite now also supports universities and tertiary education providers across Australia and New Zealand — among them the University of Technology Sydney, the University of Queensland and Te Pūkenga — where the range of spaces is far wider than a school’s. Te Pūkenga monitors across a network of sixteen tertiary and trades campuses, covering everything from general teaching rooms and laboratories to engineering workshops and salon training spaces.

Those environments carry quite different risks, and each needs its own baseline before anyone can say whether conditions are acceptable — which is exactly the case for measuring continuously rather than commissioning a one-off assessment.