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Why You Should Be Concerned About Indoor Air Quality
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) notes indoor air quality as one of the top five environmental concerns. Particularly, the health effects of poor indoor air quality can be immediate or long-term, ranging from asthma, colds, or viral diseases, to respiratory diseases, cancer, and heart disease. Understanding and controlling indoor air pollutants can not only improve facility occupant health, but also comfort and productivity.
How Pollutants Indoors Are Released
The release of gases and particles in the air is the primary cause of indoor air quality concerns. Deficient ventilation can add to indoor pollution levels when a lack of outdoor air is introduced into a facility or room to dilute pollutants. This results in skyrocketing pollutant levels.
Some common sources of pollutants indoors are:
- Furniture
- Building materials
- Cleaning products
- Excess moisture
- Radon
- Pesticides
- Outdoor air pollution
Inadequate Ventilation
Buildings without ventilation equipment have increased air quality challenges, resulting in health and comfort issues for occupants. When there is a lack of outdoor air mixing with existing air in a building or inadequate ventilation equipment for the building’s needs, pollutants can increase to unsafe levels. Thus, ventilation systems can dilute or remove indoor air pollutants originating from indoor sources. Some ventilation options are filters, fans, and ion emitting devices.
How Can SVL Help?
SVL offers a wide range of solutions to address indoor air quality challenges and has a highly qualified sales team with the expertise to identify the best solution for your unique needs. Whether you are considering a new system, a retrofit solution, or more efficient filters, SVL has cost-effective options to obtain the desired results. In short, when you have better air quality, you will also have healthier, happier occupants.
In particular, here are five of SVL’s indoor air quality solutions that could be a great fit for your facility:
First, Dynamic’s products eliminate ultra-fine particles, VOCs, odors, gas phase contaminants, and biologicals from indoor and ventilation air.
Second, CosaTron’s products control indoor air contaminants and mitigate the harmful effects they can have while restoring clean, fresh air.
Third, Steril-Aire’s UVC solutions provide the greatest UVC output available on the market, which drastically reduces airborne microorganisms.
Fourth, GPS’s advanced bipolar ionization process cleans your air more efficiently with Needle Point Bipolar Ionization (NPBI).
And last but not least, Purafil’s filters remove air contaminants, including odors, bacteria, and viruses.