Ideally, recommendations for addressing complex issues will prompt healthy collaboration between team members who all keep an open mind and remain committed to doing the right thing for the building.
Remember, time is money, and with every additional contract drawing produced, it takes time and design fee to dissect the HVAC equipment information into the contract specifications and contract drawings.
Monitor your IAQ management plan to avoid unintended health consequences
April 1, 2024
While we manage IAQ to decrease exposure to airborne pathogens, such as SARS-CoV-2, we need to be extremely careful to avoid IAQ management that has the unintended consequence of suppressing our immune system, making us more vulnerable to infections, inflammatory diseases, and cancer.
The built environment is not made up of the latest and greatest equipment that we see at tradeshows and greenfield construction sites. We're still using the old technologies, so can't we find some way to make them better?
At the present time, many people are unaware of the health significance of indoor contaminants that they cannot smell or feel through irritation of their respiratory tract.
ES Magazine sits down Jared Redelman, VDC and project controls team leader at Bowen Engineering, to discuss his recent presentation at MEP Innovation 2024