AIR QUALITY
Clean air is green air
In the average commercial building, 50% of the energy bill is for the HVAC system and 30% of that is directly related to the air fi ltration. Energy effi ciency is now linked to the latest air fi lter performance test standard ISO16890:2016, as Peter Dyment, technical manager at Camfi l, explains.
E 24 June 2019
nvironmental health is becoming a central concern at national and international levels. Indoor air quality (IAQ) is an area that focuses on providing a comfortable and healthy indoor environment which is important to the wellbeing of people.
We spend 90% of our time in indoor spaces and, as such, the issue of IAQ is a key aspect of public health, especially since this affects the entire population, particularly the most sensitive and vulnerable.
The industrialised world is a very different place compared to 50 years ago and one major difference is that the air we breathe is now more heavily and more diversely polluted than at any time in the past. Although natural sources of pollution exist, the greater concerns arise as a result of man’s own activities which have increased both the amount and the complexity of pollutants found in the atmosphere.
There are tens of thousands of synthetic chemicals (not
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