BSRIA ceo Andrew Eastwell has announced that he is stepping down from the role in April 2014.
Mr Eastwell said it is 'time to pass the baton' but that 'there is plenty of enthusiasm and talent around to see BSRIA thrive and grow as it has done in the past decade.'
He continued: 'It is astonishing how things go in cycles and our industry is no different. Forty years ago researchers were starting to get to grips with issues of indoor air pollution, then linked to smoking, Radon gas and 'sick building syndrome'.
'A huge body of evidence began to be amassed and the techniques such as air leakage testing using pressurisation and tracer gas methods were born. These are now taken for granted, developed, refined, and now turned into BS, CEN and ISO standards that apply across the world.'
Mr Eastwell added: 'The recent sudden (well, sudden by construction standards) rush to meet legal energy targets for buildings has quite rightly focussed on reducing demands, re-using heat and cold and supplying what remaining demand there is with low carbon, highly efficient devices but just for a little while we have taken our eye off the IAQ ball. It is time to re-focus efforts to make sure that in our aims to be energy meagre we don't swap one set of problems for another.'
