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How air quality sensors are changing the corporate workplace

corporate-smartphone-air-quality-sensors Posted on: September 9, 2015 | By Mike Booth

It’s estimated that the U.S. economy loses $220 billion in productivity each year from workers taking sick days. Organizations also lose an unimaginable amount of day-to-day productivity in office environments that have poor indoor air quality.

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How outdoor air pollution affects indoor air quality

office-building-outdoor-air-pollution-indoor-air-quality-sky-clouds Posted on: September 2, 2015 | By Mike Booth

A statistic that gets tossed around a lot lately is that indoor air can be two to five times more polluted than air outdoors. Considering so much time is spent indoors, this is certainly cause for alarm. However, indoor air quality and outdoor air pollution are often viewed as two separate issues despite being very much connected.

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Hinsdale Middle School gives AeraMax Professional an A+

Posted on: July 29, 2015 | By Mike Booth

School facility managers can take pride in knowing they maintain clean and safe buildings for hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of students. Yet, since each school has a different design, there’s no universal solution for ensuring an entire facility has healthy and clean indoor air quality. Luckily, there is a solution for dramatically improving air quality […]

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5 Long-term Health Risks Associated with Poor Indoor Air Quality

COPD-respiratory-health-IAQ-air-purifiers-lungs Posted on: July 22, 2015 | By Mike Booth

Air purifiers have gone from novelty to necessity as the global state of air quality becomes a more pressing issue. In the U.S. alone, more than 131 million people live in bad air, according to the National Resources Defense Council.

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Aerosol experts reveal unsettling truths about indoor air quality

Posted on: July 8, 2015 | By Mike Booth

A recent Popular Science piece exposed some startling information about airborne transmission of diseases, covering everything from toilet plumes to the 2003 outbreak of SARS. For example, the article notes that 100 bacteria, fungi and viruses can be spread through the air.

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