Background: Climate change legislation will require dramatic increases in the energy efficiency of school buildings across the UK by 2050, which has the potential to affect air quality in schools. We assessed how different strategies for improving the energy efficiency of school buildings in England and Wales may affect asthma incidence and associated healthcare utilization costs in the future.
Methods: Indoor concentrations of traffic-related NO were modelled inside school buildings representing 13 climate regions in England and Wales using a building physics school stock model.