Centre for Intelligent Transport

Air Cleaning Technologies (ACT): design protocol

Principal investigator:Eldad AVITAL
Co-investigator(s): Vassili TOROPOV
Funding source(s):DOH Department of Health - GOV UK
 Start: 01-04-2021  /  End: 30-09-2023
 Amount: £89018
Research Centre:
ACT is a multi-centred randomised control trial of two air disinfection technologies which have the potential to mitigate the airborne transmission of the Covid-19 virus within schools: Portable high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters Upper-room ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (ur-UVGI) 30 primary schools from across Bradford are trialling these technologies to assess both the feasibility and efficacy of using these in schools, see https://caer.org.uk/projects/air-cleaning-technologies-act/