Improving School Air Quality Aging school buildings across the country need repairs and upgrades. For some buildings, mold is an issue that demands attention. For others, aging pipes give facilities managers concern while for many, outdated heating and ventilation systems fail to operate at the level needed
Read more →A new survey shows that more than 60 percent of workers worry the air in their workspace and offices is polluted. The survey, conducted by YouGov for Blueair, questioned 1,006 people in the United States from March 23-31, 2022, about pollution and indoor air quality. A total
Read more →The first thing you notice walking the halls of Holabird Academy is the windows. A grid above the entryway floods the main corridor with cool light, and classrooms boast nearly floor-to-ceiling views of the surrounding Baltimore neighborhood. What you won’t notice — what anyone rarely notices in
Read more →4 in 5 people believe ‘fresh air’ from outside is key to improving air quality in their homes, but this could actually be counterproductive and worsen indoor air quality, research has today revealed. The new research by the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) found homeowners are
Read more →With the risk of airborne transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus established, homeowners and business owners seek to limit the spread of COVID indoors. This requires a combination of methods and guidelines including increased HVAC maintenance and social distancing. A recent air cleaner study recommends an additional tool
Read more →Pure Air Control Services is excited to announce the release of IAQ Guard 2.0. This managed indoor air quality monitoring platform utilizes hardware monitors placed throughout a building that take real time readings and send them to a cloud-based dashboard for reporting. In 2019 the first version
Read more →Work out in polluted air and you may miss out on some of the brain benefits of exercise, according to two, large-scale new studies of exercise, air quality and brain health. The studies, which involved tens of thousands of British men and women, found that, most of
Read more →At the time of this writing, the country continues to set records concerning the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases. Meanwhile, many of us in the facility cleaning field have either already welcomed back faculty and students, or, at least, hope to do so again in the coming
Read more →Vincent Malpaya starts a small fire out of wood chips and sends the smoke through a tube into an enclosed 400-square-foot building where indoor air quality sensors measure the particulate matter in the air. Meanwhile, his research partner, Michelle Starner, sits in front of a computer watching
Read more →Engineers, contractors, and facility owners have all received a tremendous amount of information within this past year regarding how to improve the air quality within their indoor environments. Some of this information comes from organizations such as ASHRAE, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),
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