While much attention has rightly been paid to highlighting and improving air pollution outdoors, we often overlook the fact that people on average spend 93% of their time indoors.
Ventilation is critical to removing harmful pollutants that can be found in the air of an indoor environment, which can contain up to 900 chemicals, particles and biological materials with potential detrimental health effects.
The importance of well-ventilated buildings is often neglected. A virus transmits most effectively in poorly ventilated, crowded indoor settings being the most conducive environment for it to spread.
Read more about the impact of IAQ on our health in our whitepaper. Here we examin the problem of indoor air pollution, why we need to take it seriously, and how ventilation can provide a smart answer that does not compromise other important building qualities such as insulation and carbon efficiency.