Suwon City Steps Up Indoor Air Quality Management for Citizens

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Jung Jun-sung] Suwon City announced that it has established and is implementing a '2022 Comprehensive Indoor Air Quality Management Plan' aimed at creating 'an indoor environment where citizens can stay with confidence.'

The city's comprehensive indoor air quality management plan consists of six implementation projects: ▲strengthened guidance and inspection of indoor air quality management facilities ▲special inspections related to fine dust seasonal management system ▲free measurement and consulting for health-vulnerable facilities ▲continuous indoor air quality measurement and automated control projects utilizing IoT (Internet of Things) ▲radon measurement device sharing service ▲radon condition survey and consulting for senior centers and other community gathering places.

The city plans to strengthen guidance and inspection for indoor air quality safety management and support indoor air quality management at multi-use facilities and health-vulnerable facilities, thereby creating a healthy indoor environment where citizens can live with confidence.

First, the city will inspect the mandatory self-measurement and training requirements for indoor air quality at target facilities and verify whether pollutant-emitting building materials are used in newly constructed multi-use facilities and apartment complexes.

The city plans to conduct surprise inspections of indoor air quality pollution levels at multi-use facilities.

Suwon City's indoor air quality management targets include 567 facilities such as parking facilities, medical facilities, childcare facilities, and newly constructed apartment complexes.

Additionally, until March, during the fine dust seasonal management period, the city will conduct special inspections of indoor air quality at 32 facilities including underground transit stations, libraries, medical institutions, elderly care facilities, childcare centers, large-scale retail stores, and indoor parking lots. Inspections have been ongoing since December of last year.

For health-vulnerable facilities, the city provides free indoor air quality measurement and offers consulting. Target facilities include 1,401 locations such as childcare facilities, elderly care facilities, disability care facilities, and community children's centers.

The city also implements a 'continuous indoor air quality measurement and automated control project utilizing IoT.' This involves installing air quality measurement sensors at facilities and operating an air purifier linkage system.

Suwon City monitors indoor air quality online and manages the measurement system. The city plans to install the system at 4 selected facilities through a public recruitment process.

The 'indoor radon measurement device sharing service,' designed to alleviate citizen concerns about radon, a radioactive substance, will continue.

Any Suwon City resident can borrow the measurement device, and the rental period is one day.

For households where radon is measured higher than the legal permissible standard of 148 becquerels (Bq/㎥), the city provides consulting on radon reduction methods.

Additionally, the city will conduct radon condition surveys targeting newly established senior centers and community gathering places.

Meanwhile, a city official stated, "We will implement the comprehensive indoor air quality management plan without delay to prevent environmental diseases among vulnerable populations at high risk of harmful substance exposure," and added, "We will make efforts to create an environment where citizens can stay indoors with confidence."