Optimal Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) is essential to guarantee a healthy, safe indoor environment for all buildings. It also promotes ideal comfort conditions; increased productivity; and reduced operating expenses. A new book and CD titled The Indoor Quality Guide: Best Practices for Design, Construction, and Commissioning provides guidance for improving IAQ by using proven strategies and techniques. The book, written in collaboration with ASHRAE, the American Institute of Architects, BOMA International, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, The Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors’ National Association, and the U.S. Green Building Council, includes a number of tips for improving a building’s IAQ, such as:
- Bringing IAQ into the earliest design discussions
- Recognizing that operations and maintenance is essential to long-term IAQ
- Limiting liquid water penetration and condensation and control indoor humidity
- Using enhanced filtration and air cleaning where indoor air quality is poor
Since people spend 90% of their time in an indoor environment, it is important that indoor air quality remains at acceptable levels. R.M. Thornton, a Linc Service Contractor, can provide you with recommendations and services on how you can best accomplish reaching an optimal IAQ level. Their approach to Indoor Air Quality is comprehensive, cost-effective and designed to provide your place of occupancy with a more comfortable and productive work environment. Contact us today to discuss your IAQ options.