Topic: 'Building'
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- When renovating or remodeling, extra precaution should be taken to ensure the safety of students and staff. Here's how to do so before, during, and after renovation.
- Here's the details on how to keep students and staff safe when renovating and remodeling.
- Restorers should understand building systems and the related physical laws in order to restore a damaged building to its intended function and use-life.
- OSHA guide to preventing mold, mold sources, and building-related illnesses.
- Without a long-term commitment to comprehensive environmental management, not even the best high performance school can hope to stay high performing for very long.
- First-of-its-kind green healthcare rating system distinguishes construction of high-performance healthcare facilities.
- The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program has been one of the most significant developments in the Green Cleaning movement over the past decade, but additional positive changes may now be afoot.
- A clean facility is a healthy facility - most of the time - but it’s ironic that some products designed to make our buildings cleaner and healthier may contribute to asthma.
- Walk-throughs are a practical learning experience for staff that builds awareness, confidence and skills – essential elements of a sustainable IAQ program.
- Current technology allows easy and relatively inexpensive measurement of carbon dioxide (CO2 ) as an indicator to help ensure ventilation systems (for high density occupancy zones) are delivering the recommended minimum quantities of outside air to the building’s occupants.
- Four elements - sources, the HVAC system, pollutant pathways, and occupants - are involved in the development of IAQ problems.
- There is a widespread perception that carpet cannot be kept clean (sanitary) and that because of its inability to be kept clean, carpet contributes significantly to the deterioration of indoor environmental quality, especially leading to unhealthy indoor air quality. This unnecessary misconception often leads to policy decisions for removing carpet from many environments such as schools, health care facilities, and public agencies.
- There are many factors that can affect IAQ, such as human activity within the building, the building’s construction materials, and the types of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems in a building.
- Making the case for comprehensive IAQ management in schools.
- A healthy school needs to engage in a scientific and professional cleaning process to realize its health objectives.
- How to properly store and organize cleaning chemicals for health, safety, and green benefits.
- Green the plant logically: Not every initiative will have a positive, sustainable return.