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"Lab Technologies Can Create Healthy Buildings Campus-Wide in a Post-COVID World"
Author: Peter Hmelyar
Published In: Facilities Manager
Date: July/August 2021

The era of “healthy buildings” has arrived. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, building owners increasingly recognized the bottom-line benefits of implementing measures to optimize indoor air quality (IAQ) and other critical environmental measures. While COVID may not have created this trend, it has certainly given it high-profile momentum. The requirements for creating healthy buildings are familiar to universities and other institutions that house high-end laboratories. After all, for years labs have focused on this element of health and safety. Initially, the emphasis was on lowering energy usage in labs, then came the push to improve safety through both enhanced ventilation and monitoring of all issues. Most recently, overall IAQ has been the hallmark of the next-generation laboratory. Facilities leaders who manage these lab environments now have a new challenge: They must take that expertise and apply it to all the other spaces on a university campus—the classrooms, dining halls, and student unions. The IAQ measures and other sophisticated protocols used in labs for the past 15-plus years are now required in a university’s nonlab settings. If you’re a lab manager, technology that initially targeted energy savings now delivers very real ROI from both health and safety perspectives based on the information we now have about the actual IAQ in labs—and this technology also applies to nonlab environments on your campus.


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