Taking steps to evaluate and improve your building鈥檚 indoor air quality (IAQ) is an important reassurance to your employees and other occupants of a safe and healthy facility. The American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) recommends that building owners take additional steps to improve the IAQ of their facilities. These steps include:
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ASHRAE also recommends setting the building鈥檚 HVAC system to flush total air volumes in occupied spaces to reduce airborne infectious particles by 95%. For many areas this would mean cycling 3X the space volume of the interior space with outside air. This step also provides the added benefit of removing carbon dioxide and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from the workspace.
In addition to these precautions, the overall quality of your building鈥檚 indoor air spaces directly impacts the health, safety, and productivity of anyone in your facility:
Other factors contribute to poor IAQ, such as low/high humidity, poor air circulation, and air spaces that won鈥檛 stay warm in winter or cool in summer. Bottom-line consequences linked to poor IAQ could also lead to higher disability insurance and liability claims.
These issues make awareness of your building鈥檚 IAQ an important new concern. Partnering with a knowledgeable team of IAQ specialists is an important first step to mitigating these risks.
GEM Service has a team of certified, experienced IAQ technicians with the skill and knowledge required to inspect and evaluate your building鈥檚 indoor air spaces, detect potential air quality issues, and remediate these issues to measurably improve your building鈥檚 air quality.
The GEM Service IAQ Assessment and Remediation Team is specially trained to inspect all areas of your building, to detect areas of concern in all interior air spaces. Certified by the International Certification Board, GEM Service鈥檚 IAQ technicians are equipped to accurately detect levels of all types of air contaminants including molds, dust, formaldehyde, organic and inorganic particles, as well as evaluate air quality and circulation throughout your facility.
If problems are detected, GEM Service can make the necessary repairs and/or perform the maintenance required to remediate these issues, to eliminate the source of your building鈥檚 indoor air contamination.
For more information about Indoor Air Quality:
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