Physics Sheds New Light on Indoor Air Quality and COVID-19
Investigating the connections between solar activity, radon, and COVID-19.
View ArticleDo You Want To Know What You Are Inhaling?
Unfortunately, visibility into unintentional exposures from the air we breathe is often lacking.
View ArticlePutting Health into the Safe Building Equation
The human body does not exist in a silo. Our cells, tissues, and organs interact with and are impacted by our environment.
View ArticleWe All Have Skin in the Game
Management of indoor air to reduce the penetration of harmful substances requires not only source control but maintenance of conditions that support healthy skin layers.
View ArticleGrading Your Schoolroom Air
What cost-effective strategies can schools implement to give parents confidence and protect student and teacher health and performance?
View ArticlePut Your Office Air to Work
In the US, for every dollar spent on health care benefits, another 61 cents is spent on illness-related absences and reduced work output.
View ArticleOptimizing the Indoor Environments of Nursing Homes
Increased acute and chronic inflammation, oxidative stress on target organs, and worsening of underlying pulmonary and cardiovascular disease are some of the verified risks of suboptimal IAQ.
View ArticleDoes Nature Impact the Rise and Fall of COVID-19 Cases?
Recognizing the role of nature in airborne disease transmission is a major step in the path to comprehend the past and address the future.
View ArticleThe Pros of Understanding the Health Impact of IAQ Far Outweigh the Cons
The need to monitor and manage IAQ from the perspective of human health is imperative.
View ArticleThe Many Faces of Ozone
We need to be mindful of ozone and limit our indoor exposure to this excitable molecule.
View ArticleEnvironmental Justice Includes Thoughtful IAQ Standards
The more stringent standards found in health care settings, where people are immunocompromised or more vulnerable because of age, need to be extended to other settings.
View ArticleProperly Managed IAQ Can Decrease the Spread of Antibiotic Resistance
The role of the indoor environment in shaping health is finally coming into focus.
View ArticleMoving Beyond the Wells-Riley Equation
If we're truly going to manage indoor environments for occupant health, we need to extend our understanding and management of IAQ to encompass more than the number of microbes in the air.
View ArticlePassively Improving IAQ Using Building Materials
Improving the temperature and humidity performance of a building passively can be accomplished by exposing structures with micropores to indoor air.
View ArticleBuilding Management for Occupant Health Needs to Move Beyond Comfort
While the appeal of profits and fear of lawyers are powerful emotions, doing the right thing to protect human health in all occupied buildings must take precedence.
View ArticleA Unilateral Focus on Building Energy Reduction Could Worsen Pandemics
Properly managing IAQ for occupant health, on the other hand, will help decrease pandemics.
View ArticleThe Balance Between Industry Profits and Human Health Protection
How can infectious and noninfectious diseases that spread through the air, are not fully controlled by individual behaviors, and affect “innocent bystanders” be contained to protect the health of the...
View ArticleManaging IAQ for Human Health Creates a ‘North Star’ for Energy Conservation...
Our moral imperative is to set health metrics as our constant to guide natural and mechanical HVAC settings.
View ArticleManaging IAQ to Support Diverse, Healthy Microbiomes
Maintaining IAQ to support beneficial microbes and diminish the presence of pathogenic ones provides each of us with the powerful, personalized medicine of a healthy microbiome.
View ArticleThoughtful Building Decarbonization May Decrease Health Inequity and Medical...
Building management standards follow economic trends.
View ArticleIAQ Without Proper Humidity Will Not Support Occupant Health
Do we even know what ‘doing the right thing’ is anymore?
View ArticleNitrogen: Friend or Foe?
Exposures in homes with intermittent peaks of NO2 have been associated with numerous concerns, including severe asthma in children and adults.
View ArticleDesigns In Nature Scale Successfully. Do Yours?
Are there lessons from Fibonacci ratios that could be used by engineers to improve fans blades for air movement, size HVAC ducts, or design economical mechanical systems?
View ArticleKnowing Outdoor Air Quality Allows Management of IAQ for Health and Efficiency
The adage that increasing outdoor air ventilation will improve IAQ is not always the case. For example, how do you manage ventilation to support occupant health if outdoor air is polluted by an upwind...
View ArticlePerfume or Poison: The tVOC Riddle
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are airborne carbon-based molecules produced by chemicals vaporizing at room temperature.
View ArticleThe Impact of the Environment on Infectious Fungi
In the past several years, there has been much discussion on the influence of indoor environments on the spread of diseases caused by viruses and bacteria.
View ArticleChildren need seatbelts and good IAQ in schools
As parents who want the best for our kids, we go to great lengths to make sure their living and playing spaces are safe from physical dangers.
View ArticleIncentives and obstacles in managing IAQ for occupant health
When people became aware that transmission of SARS-CoV-2 was primarily through the air, reducing airborne exposure in buildings immediately became a high priority.
View ArticleIndoor and outdoor air concentration levels can guide HVAC management to...
At the present time, many people are unaware of the health significance of indoor contaminants that they cannot smell or feel through irritation of their respiratory tract.
View ArticlePoor IAQ makes it challenging for our skin to ‘breathe’
While we manage IAQ to decrease exposure to airborne pathogens, such as SARS-CoV-2, we need to be extremely careful to avoid IAQ management that has the unintended consequence of suppressing our immune...
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