Indoor Air Quality
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Air ventilation in multi-residential buildings
Achieving a healthy indoor environment begins with proper air ventilation, especially as buildings become more airtight. Kevin Smith explains the various systems available today.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Virus hastens new tower at St. Michael’s Hospital
A much anticipated, and unfinished, addition to St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto was fast-tracked to keep pace with a fast-moving pandemic.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
HRAI develops COVID-19 awareness training program
HRAI is developing a COVID-19 training program for residential applications with the potential to expand into small commercial and ICI sectors.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Cannabis production environment key to creating healthy inventory
Proper cleaning of cannabis production facilities may be the unsung hero of the industry and the difference between a healthy market and a lagging one.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
The importance of healthy indoor air quality
To achieve healthy indoor air quality, various measures can be applied, among which thorough and systematical air quality monitoring is the vital one.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
‘No VOCs’ product claim not always what it seems
Building occupants may still be inhaling VOCs and other chemical emissions despite the use of eco-friendly products.
REMI Network
Simon Fraser University closer to becoming zero waste
Simon Fraser University is another step closer to becoming a zero-waste university, with Shrum Chemistry now one of its most energy efficient buildings.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Forest fires pose indoor air quality challenge
Indoor air quality specialists concur that larger commercial buildings are among the better places to be when outdoor conditions are compromised since HVAC systems typically incorporate air filtration.
REMI Network
Mobile app finds solutions for indoor air quality issues
A new mobile app helps individuals find solutions to indoor air quality problems in their workplace.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Addressing Legionella risk in buildings
ASHRAE Standard 188, released in 2015, requires that buildings evaluate where Legionella growth may occur in all water and plumbing systems.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Living walls cultivate air quality and wellbeing
Living walls are becoming increasingly popular in retail, institutional, office and residential interior spaces, and for good reason.
REMI Network
Balancing Tenant Comfort and HVAC Design
If an HVAC system is well-designed, with proper air quality and air flow, tenants will be satisfied and property managers will field fewer complaints.
REMI Network
Poor IAQ a concern in elementary schools
Poor indoor air quality and the humidity in public elementary school classrooms is having an increasingly negative impact on learning and school safety.
Canadian Property Management
How TD Bank HQ achieved WELL certification
An interiors project for TD Bank headquarters recently became the world’s first project certified under v1 of the WELL Building certification.
REMI Network
New ASHRAE standard affects multi-residential
Changes to ASHRAE’s new indoor air quality standard include requirements for multi-residential spaces, environmental tobacco smoke and operations.
Building Strategies & Sustainability
U.K. doctors predict new indoor air pollutants
Burgeoning technologies may also come with unforeseen environmental contaminants and health impacts warns a new study from the United Kingdom's Royal College of Physicians.
Building Strategies & Sustainability
Guide defines indoor air quality competencies
Two respected professional associations have collaborated to produce a first-ever compendium of knowledge and skills that competent indoor air quality (IAQ) practitioners should possess. The
