ASHRAE Introduces Guide for Reopening Schools

ASHRAE Introduces Guide for Reopening Schools

School is back in (sort of) and the ASHRAE Epidemic Task Force is doing everything it can to help school districts and university campus environmental health managers, facility managers, administrators, technicians, and service providers navigate through these unprecedented circumstances. Most notably….

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Reducing the Transmission of Viruses with Humidification Part 2: Understanding Airborne Viruses

Reducing the Transmission of Viruses with Humidification Part 2: Understanding Airborne Viruses

The World Health Organization (WHO) made big news in early July by acknowledging increasing scientific evidence that COVID-19 (SARS- CoV-2) bears the risk of airborne transmission. But wait -- didn’t we already know that? The answer to that question is more complicated….

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Reducing the Transmission of Viruses with Humidification Part 1: Optimum RH Range

Reducing the Transmission of Viruses with Humidification Part 1: Optimum RH Range

Who would have imagined less than a year ago that our collective daily lives would be so greatly impacted by a single, air-borne virus? Yet here we are, recalibrating “normal” in the wake of COVID-19 (SARS- CoV-2). And while social distancing and masks dominate much of the public conversation, building humidification is the….

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