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Schools: monitoring the air quality required in 2015

Monitoring the quality of indoor air will become "mandatory" in schools from 2015 , announced Minister of Ecology.

This will affect the host institutions group of children under six years and nursery schools from 1 January 2015, elementary schools from 1 January 2018, and local youth with educational and other institutions or vocational training of young people under 18 years from 1 January 2020, the ministry said.

Here are the results of the first season of monitoring air quality in schools, launched in 2009-2010 in 160 schools and nurseries:

- For 14% of establishments that have an annual average concentration of formaldehyde per room above the reference value of 30 micrograms per cubic meter, a specific action is warranted;

- 60% have a higher concentration of benzene two micrograms per cubic meter. "The indoor concentration is similar to the concentration outside in 80% of cases. "

- 16% have an index of confinement greater than three (on a scale of zero to five), corresponding to an insufficient ventilation.

"These institutions are encouraged to improve the operation of ventilation devices, and verify their relevance to the conditions of use of parts. Devices for self-renewal of air, indicating a light color when the air must be renewed, may be lent to institutions. "

The campaign will continue in 2011 with 150 establishments.

Another aspect concerns the diagnosis of potentially contaminated soil from about 800 institutions for children, launched in the second quarter of 2010. The department provides the construction of 400 diagnoses in 2011, "the goal of 600 completed or diagnoses made at the end 2011."