ENERGY MANAGEMENT & SUSTAINABILITY
A BREATH OF FRESH AIR
How can businesses meet new indoor air regulations while also beating rising energy costs? Christian Hendriksen, Co-founder & CEO of Rensair, looks at the technology available to help improve organisations’ triple bottom line: people, profit and planet.
Worsening air pollution, combined with the global pandemic, is driving new government regulation to substantially improve indoor air quality.
However, while ventilation is key to protecting respiratory health, it also demands more energy. A typical HVAC system can already account for half a building’s total energy consumption, as fresh air intake needs heating in winter and cooling in summer.
Stricter legislative standards will require far higher levels of ventilation, such that spiralling energy costs may pose a real threat to the bottom line.
Indoor air regulation is on its way The Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill, tabled by Green party peer Baroness Jenny Jones, has had its second reading
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at the House of Lords. If made law, it would tackle all forms of air pollution, both indoor and outdoor, and involve the UK Health Security Agency in setting and reviewing pollutants and their limits.
One stipulation requires owners of buildings which— (i) are used as places of work and to which health and safety provisions apply; or (ii) are regularly accessed by members of the public, including children, to assess and report concentrations of indoor air pollutants measured in accordance with the most up to date ISO standards.
The Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill is now due to pass on to the House of Lords’ Committee and Report stages. The initiative goes hand in hand with the latest Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) report from the National Engineering Policy Centre (NEPC). Commissioned by Government Chief
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