Get educated about good indoor air quality in schools and universities. Help students improve their cognitive performance, essential for successful learning, with good indoor air quality.
Reading, writing, arithmetic – and good indoor air quality. With the proper care and attention, your HVAC system can help you achieve the best conditions for learning and productivity – and have a positive impact on achievement and performance inside these critical institutions.
On any given school day, roughly 51 million people will occupy a school building. Yet many of these buildings are in need of extensive repairs, and report problems related to poor indoor air quality. Without a prompt response to these challenges, poor indoor air quality (IAQ) can result in short- and long-term health problems, expensive repairs and even liability issues.
Schools and other educational facilities present unique problems to designers and HVAC practitioners. Most schools are diverse structures with different environments such as classrooms, laboratories, workshops, gymnasiums, libraries, theaters, cafeterias and photography darkrooms. Physics and biology labs present their own unique challenges to maintaining proper IAQ throughout the facility.
High-level cognitive performance, essential for successful learning, is linked to good IAQ. Another fact is that most educational facilities are in areas of high population density (cities), and the air can be polluted by a wide range of contaminants from both outdoor and indoor sources. The hazards faced by students and teachers range from general IAQ issues to exposure to traffic fumes, exposure to toxic gases in labs and exposure to deadly viruses in research labs.
Camfil offers robust and dedicated particulate filtration, molecular filtration and containment filtration solutions for all air quality issues in educational establishments.
Supplemental air purifications systems or air cleaners are ideal for classrooms and other gathering spaces in schools and universities. Buildings may need added filtration in specific areas where students and staff tend to be present, or in cases where altering the HVAC system could be difficult or expensive. Camfil's City M air purifier is a standalone unit that offers in-place filtration solutions where viruses, bacteria and other airborne contaminants are likely present. The City M uses HEPA air filtration with each filter individually tested and certified to remove 99.995% of the most penetrating particle size.
Read how Camfil worked with a Mid-Atlantic school district to improve air quality in the district’s buildings. Camfil introduced the school district to the City M air purifier, an in-room air purification unit that uses HEPA air filtration and is capable of moving 256 cubic feet of purified air per minute. Read the full case study here.
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For a safe school operation, healthy and virus-free air in the classroom is needed to avoid infections and diseases and to provide added comfort to students, parents, and staff. Camfil's "Clean Air in the Classrooms" information pack is designed to help schools understand the clean air solutions available to mitigate virus and airborne pathogen risks.
More than 100,000 students and teachers are now protected against biological agents such as SARS-CoV-2 thanks to our “City M” air purifiers. Camfil HEPA H14 filters are certified according to EN1822 standard and are delivered with their mandatory individual scan test certificate. Their large filter surface area, the largest on the market for this type of purifier, provides a market-leading low-pressure drop.
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Mid-Atlantic school system with multiple elementary and middle school facilities as well as three high schools dedicated to providing a safe environment for successful learning.
Read the report from the University College of Dublin (UCD) as they evaluate the effectiveness of the City M unit in poorly ventilated environments
For a safe school operation, healthy and virus-free air in the classroom is needed to avoid infections and diseases. Viruses, such as COVID-19, can spread through the air in the form of aerosols. Depending on factors including ventilation rates and particulate levels, these viruses can remain airborne for several hours. Indoor environments can experience a higher concentration of aerosols (high viral load), which can increase the risk of infection.
A Life Cycle Costing (LCC) analysis proved the Camfil Durafil filter operated at a 24% lower energy cost per year than the Viledon T-60. The Camfil product would save the customer $14 per filter per year versus the alternative.
A Life Cycle Costing (LCC) analysis proved the Camfil Durafil filter operated at a 24% lower energy cost per year than the Viledon T-60. The Camfil product would save the customer $14 per filter per year versus the alternative.
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The reason understanding SBS is important is a majority of adults spend a minimum of eight hours a day inside an office or work building, and most are indoor for about 90 percent of the time they are awake.
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