| Abstract | In August 2008 the 11th International Conference on Indoor AirQuality and Climate, INDOOR AIR 2008, organized by the Tech-nical University of Denmark (DTU) at Lyngby was held in Copen-hagen. This was a very special conference since it marked the 30thanniversary of the first of this series of events, which also startedout in Copenhagen. In 1978 Povl Ole Fanger, foreseeing the neces-sity of internationalizing the indoor-air sciences, invited a smallnumber of experts to Denmark. INDOOR AIR rapidly developedinto the most important and largest platform in this field and hasbeen held every three years since 1978. In addition, Fanger playeda decisive role in founding the International Society of Indoor AirQuality and Climate (ISIAQ), the International Academy of IndoorAir Sciences (IAIAS), now ISIAQ Academy of Fellows, and thejournal Indoor Air (now published by Wiley-Blackwell). Even afterbecoming an emeritus professor in 2004, he kept his links to theindoor air sciences and it was a special concern for him and his suc-cessor Bjarne Olesen to bring INDOOR AIR 2008 back to Copen-hagen. Unfortunately, Ole was not able to experience this himself:he passed away quite unexpectedly on September 18th, 2006 in Syr-acuse, NY, which meant that the conference could only be dedi-cated to his memory. With all honor due to Ole's services, weshould also mention at this point the sudden deaths in 2006 of twoother founding members of the ISIAQ and the Academy, MarcoMaroni and Ole Valbjørn. |
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