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Indoor Air Quality Management

Indoor Air Quality Management (IAQM) is an essential process to determine the level of contaminants present in indoor air and predictively and proactively optimize airflow while minimizing wasted energy costs via occupancy sensors, modelling and air quality data, demand control ventilation, outside air economizing, and other tools.

The average person spends 90% of their day indoors. Given the proven negative effects of poor IAQ, Installing an IAQM system is one of the easiest investments a building owner or facility manager can make. Buildings with poor IAQM tools are prone to sick building syndrome, occupant complaints, high occupant turnover rates, and illness. Poor indoor air quality has also been shown in repeated studies to limit cognitive performance—as anyone who has felt sleepy on a stuffy airplane can attest—and workplace productivity as a result.

Built-in 75F occupancy sensors continuously track space utilization and number of people in each zone, then adjust ventilation to direct outside air where it is needed via Dynamic Airflow Balancing, while Outdoor Air Optimization uses free heating and cooling to maximize fresh air and minimize system costs, even in partially-occupied buildings

Without air quality monitoring and management, the built environment poses a health risk for those who spend most of their day indoors. Some of these risks are invisible – VOCs are emitted as chemical gases into the air from commonplace structures such as building materials, furniture, office equipment, paints, cleaners, cosmetics, glues, plastics, and aerosol sprays. Overnight or on weekends, or in unused or partially occupied rooms or spaces, VOC buildup occurs. For CO2 the opposite is true: High occupancy inside a zone or conference room without proper ventilation spikes CO2 levels. These high occupancy areas also benefit from higher ventilation rates to reduce virus transmission.

To ensure air quality then, building codes have standards that must be met. For CO2, ASHRAE standards 62.1 and 62.2 are the recognized guidelines for acceptable indoor air quality and health.

75F’s IAQM solution can address research-supported methods of slowing the dispersal of viral particles in the built space. Studies show that incorporating high outside air volumes and maintaining a higher target relative humidity indoors are both critical strategies every business should use to mitigate the spread and survival of viral particles indoors.

With 75F Facilisight, owners, facilities teams, or tenants can make scheduling changes for hundreds of buildings remotely with a single click. While the system automatically manages air quality, users can drill down to individual zones to view real-time CO2 and VOC levels, in addition to other indoor environment factors to ensure every building is delivering optimal occupant comfort and health.

Your workplace can use a breath of fresh air.

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