Nearly two years after Congress approved $122 billion in COVID relief aid for elementary and secondary education through the American Rescue Plan, school districts and charter organizations have focused their spending on three priorities: academic recovery, staffing, and school facilities and operations, a FutureEd analysis...
Fortunately, there is an easy-to-implement alternative for the millions of HVAC systems that were never intended to perform with MERV 13+ filters. Through a layered approach, facility engineers can combine medium-efficiency filters (MERV 8) with ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI or shortwave energy in the ultraviolet...
School districts and charter school organizations have received extra time to spend billions of COVID-relief dollars designated for K-12 public schools, under updated guidance from the U.S. Department of Education (e.g., spending deadlines have been lengthened). The U.S. Department of Education said extensions could reach...
Representative Don Beyer (D Va.) recently introduced legislation (H.R. 7671), To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit for certain indoor air quality assessments and improvements, and for other purposes (otherwise known as the 7671), that would incentivize non-residential...
Did you know that air quality impacts students’ health, concentration, attendance, and even academic performance? Indoor air quality (IAQ) plays a critical role in lowering the risk of infectious diseases, which seriously affects educational success. Yet, to date, only 7% of schools have embraced UV-C,...
Fortunately, there is an easy-to-implement alternative for the millions of HVAC systems that were never intended to perform with MERV 13+ filters. Through a layered approach, facility engineers can combine medium-efficiency filters (MERV 8) with ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI or shortwave energy in the ultraviolet...
Germicidal ultraviolet light can kill airborne viruses indoors before they infect, public health researchers say. Building owners and facility managers can make indoor environments safer by disinfecting indoor air, according to a new op/ed in The New York Times by airborne infectious disease experts Donald...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been many questions about the proper use of germicidal ultraviolet light (UV-C) energy for surface and air inactivation. Dean Saputa, VP of UV Resources, was recently interviewed by HPAC Engineering Magazine editor Rob McManamy on his role in helping...