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F now includes guidance on indoor air pollution, including exposure limits and times for carbon monoxide (CO), as well as NO2, formaldehyde (CH2O) and TVOC.
Removing air pollution from homes As laid out in the Healthy Homes Bill: “all new homes must be built to minimise, and where possible eliminate, the harmful impacts of air pollution on human health and the environment.” In order to achieve this, good ventilation is essential to disperse pollutants. As recognised in Building Regulations, this is best achieved through mechanical ventilation systems, with the most effective being Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery (MVHR). These bring fresh air into the home and extract stale air, along with the pollutants. However, if properties are located in areas with high pollution levels, the MVHR systems are actually bringing polluted air into the home and, although they come equipped with standard filters, these can only do so much. Building Regulations advice is to locate intake grilles away from the direct impact of the sources of local pollution, but this is not always possible or effective enough. Installing a
TorFloor 2®
powerful carbon filter to the MVHR system would be a more effective approach. One available product for example is applied on the supply leg of the ducting, to prevent up to 99.5% of NO2 pollution from entering a home.
Mechanical ventilation systems not only address air quality in terms of removing pollutants, but they are also highly effective at preventing condensation and subsequent mould formation; dealing with overheating in the more airtight new homes we now build; and even in reducing airborne virus transmission. So even if we meet all our goals and bring external air pollution down to WHO acceptable guidelines, mechanical ventilation remains an important aspect of a healthy home.
The next step
The Healthy Homes Bill is now at Committee stage, so has a long, long way to go and, as a Private Members’ Bill, will face an uphill battle. But if it is able to survive the journey, it could be a genuine game changer in how we approach and regulate our built environment.
Paul Williams is product manager at Domus Ventilation
takes integrated underfl oor heating to a new level
While many in the industry believed that the original TorFloor panel represented the optimum in terms of integrating underfl oor heating pipes into a quick-to-install structural fl ooring panel, UK based manufacturer OMNIE has taken both the practicality and the performance to a new level with the introduction of TorFloor 2®
. The new generation TorFloor 2® evolves from the market-leading TorFloor® predecessor by
adding a 6 mm thick chipboard upper panel with pre-foiled aluminium heat diffuser. Crucially both panels feature matching routed channels to perfectly align around the 12 mm water pipe, while the printed upper face clearly indicates the pipe’s position and the points where screws can be safely fi xed. Not only does this arrangement greatly reduce the risk of the pipe runs being accidentally damaged when fl oor coverings are installed or replaced, but the location of the routed channels places the warm water pipes closer to the surface: delivering faster warm-up times. This design means that an output of 50 W/m2 can be achieved with a fl ow temperature of 41° Centigrade.
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Underfloor_DPR.indd 1 Inspired by nature: new Artcore by modulyss
Artcore is modulyss’ latest soft fl ooring concept, built to shape and transform spaces like never before. Inspired by transitions seen in nature, Artcore includes four different patterned collections – all Cradle to Cradle Certifi ed®
Gold – that offer an opportunity to rewild the interior world, creating unique patterned
transitions that reconnect us with nature, restoring balance and wellbeing. Artcore is inspired by the transitions that modulyss designer Joris Peutz noticed in nature – the space between two states, where a material or an environment changes from one thing to another. The way a forest turns into a meadow. The way the city gives way to the country. The boundary where tree bark becomes covered in moss. “During the pandemic, I felt the world was going through a transition like never before,” says Peutz. “I began to fi nd similar transitions in the outside world: transitions between nature and man-made, transition in nature itself. Patterns that quiet the mind and are able to create a sort of sanctuary through their unique shape or dimensions.” The Artcore collection consists of four different designs: Core, Mezzo, Litho and Etch.
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