Tag: occupant-health
Question Of The Week: How Does Your Cleaning Program Look For 2018?
A recent survey of facility end-users provided insight into the cleaning and maintenance products and processes being used more frequently.
Naava Smart Green Walls
With technology imbued into these living walls, the air filtration capabilities of the plants are maximized.
New Protocol, NSF P453, Takes Aim At Legionellosis
NSF International has developed guidance on treatment, operation, and maintenance of cooling tower water systems to help protect health of building occupants.
Pest Management Prep For Fall Season
As outside temperatures drop in many locations, pests often look to migrate into facilities.
ASHRAE Seeks Public Comment On Guideline To Minimize Legionellosis
Until September 11, facility professionals and others can weigh in on Guideline 12-2000, a companion document to ASHRAE Standard 188.
Human Centric LED Retrofit By Above All Lighting
Designed with healthcare and similar facilities in mind, this product mimics the natural Kelvin changes of the sun throughout the day.
Alliance For Workplace Excellence Awards 54 Companies
These annual awards recognize companies for their actions that deliver on improving workplace wellness, sustainability, and diversity.
Focus On Hygiene Important Year-Round
Cold and flu season may be past for this year, but that doesn't mean facilities should relax on hygiene awareness for building occupants.
Delos, HKS Partnership To Study Built Environment, Health Impacts
The two firms will collaborate to discover, evaluate, and improve upon the effects of the built environment on occupant health and well-being.
Detecting Radon Gas In Schools And Commercial Buildings
January is National Radon Action Month, and this article from ALTA Environmental describes the basic elements of radon testing and remediation for facility management.
Manage IAQ During Renovations
To protect facility occupants from unhealthy indoor air during a renovation, focus on these three areas.
Question Of The Week: What IAQ Myths Have You Encountered?
When it comes to: eliminating unhealthy sources; ventilation; and air filtration, which approaches are sound — and which should facility management filter out?
LED Lighting And Circadian Rhythm
Lighting is an ever-present aspect of our everyday lives in and around buildings, and it also serves as a key trigger for our rhythmic clock.
Managing PCB Chemicals In The Built Environment
Polychlorinated biphenyls are a mixture of individual chemicals broadly used — and in numerous areas of facilities — until banned in the late 1970s.
LED Lighting, Impact On Health
In response to the AMA's June 2016 cautioning about In-Ga-N based LEDs used as sources of illumination, Rensselaer's Lighting Research Center addresses the issue.
BuildClean Dust Control System
This portable unit from ITW BuildClean is designed to prevent construction dust from disturbing the health and comfort of facility occupants.
UV-C Lights Helped College Combat Illness Last Winter
At Schenectady County Community College in New York, Ultraviolet-C Germicidal Irradiation (UVGI) upper air units were installed around the campus.
Question Of The Week: Workplace Wellness Programs?
To advance workplace wellness programs, is facility management collaborating more often with counterparts in human resources?
Question Of The Week: HVAC Coil Cleaning Methods?
Ensuring that facility air is filtered properly is largely dependent on the cleaning and maintenance of HVAC units.
Question Of The Week: Barriers To Green Cleaning?
Five challenges (real or perceived) that prevent many facilities from transitioning to green cleaning programs