The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its variants put indoor air quality in the spotlight. However, facilities managers have long known about the importance of proper ventilation to the health and wellbeing of building occupants. For K-12 facilities, and college and university classrooms too, fixing school IAQ should
Read more →Indoor air quality is always a concern for employers and facilities managers. Poor IAQ impacts the mental and physical health of building occupants. Volatile organic compounds, released into the air from both indoor and outdoor sources, also contribute to low IAQ. Understanding what VOCs are, where
Read more →Emili Potts first noticed the mold outside of Craige dorm, trailing the wall below her leaky air conditioning unit. When the UNC-Chapel Hill junior began having trouble breathing, she looked inside her AC unit and saw mold growing on the vents. She went to the doctor because
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For many years nobody considered the impact of plants as an indoor-purifier. Yes, the environment friendly role of plants is known since ages, but nobody imagined the extent to which plants can purify the air inside your living space. That was before NASA stepped in to assist
Read more →Pure Air Control Services, Inc, a world renown Indoor Air Quality firm, earn a CERC certification for their exemplary work in the field by demonstrating a high level of commitment and professionalism to environmental risk management. Certified Environmentally Responsible Contractor CriteriaThe CERC program was initiated by Environmental
Read more →Holistic HVAC hygiene is a common sense, proactive maintenance concept. It demonstrates how each component of an HVAC system works together to provide fresh air exchange and temperature control in a building. A single component being compromised can have a chain effect on the rest of the
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Registration Now Open for IAQA’s 2019 Annual Meeting The IAQA Annual Meeting will be held at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis 265 Peachtree Center Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia 30303 3-Day Conference Registration Includes: Access to the 40+ sessions in this year’s Technical Program Access to final papers and presentations
Read more →Pure Air Control Services Inc., will feature building health, occupant comfort and HVAC energy efficiency at Building Operating Management’s National Facilities Management and Technology Expo 2018. Baltimore MD, Facility Managers know the daily grind of juggling multiple assets and systems to keep their buildings operating the best
Read more →SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to implement energy-use limits for portable air conditioners and other products that were adopted during the last days of the Obama presidency. The U.S. Department of Energy was required to put the
Read more →A newly developed Environmental Scoring System (ESS) proved useful in a variety of home-based asthma intervention programs despite differences in settings, staffing, populations, and administration. The ESS was developed by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to help address the highest asthma prevalence in adults among US
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