Healthy Building Strategies™

Healthy Building Strategies™ – Ventilation

The health and efficiency of a building ventilation system is critical to the overall comfort of building occupants. A buildings ventilation system has been described as the “lungs of the building” allowing it to breath or as the “vascular/circulatory system” pushing fresh air via arteries and returning used and contaminated air via veins. While neither example is entirely correct it does point out the importance of ventilation system in filtering incoming air, controlling odors, removing pollutants such as carbon dioxide and ensuring that the air within any given area smells “fresh” while ensuring that fresh air is delivered on a consistent basis to all areas of the building.

Building ventilation has been deemed so important that both governmental and private sector organizations have developed operating standards and minimal acceptable limits regarding how ventilation systems operate all in an attempt to create a design which can deliver clean/fresh at optimal levels and remove and filter contaminants.

So how can you tell if your ventilation system needs evaluation or repair?  It may not be as easy as smelling a bad odor or hearing a strange new mechanical sound.    Often the process begins with the buildings occupants and in the case of healthcare those occupants including patients, residents and staff may spend as much as 100% of their time indoors necessitating the need for a healthy ventilation system.  These same building occupants can also be a great source of information in the form of health effects experienced as a result of underperforming or compromised ventilation.  These health effects could include headaches, fatigue, sinus congestion, sneezing, eye irritation, dizziness, skin irritation and respiratory infections.  In addition to these health-related factors various physical and mechanical aspects of a ventilation system must be evaluated to determine its overall health and ability to move and filter air.

ER Healthcare is uniquely qualified to provide state of the art evaluation of your ventilation system and provide best practice recommendations regarding creating and maintaining peak performance to ensure the safety of all building occupants.  Call us 24/7/365 toll free 877-378-4183.

ER-Healthcare can help healthcare clients of all sizes who desire to reduce risk of infection from construction dust with engineering controls and services that compliment construction services. We can work with your hospitals architects and engineers to develop infection control measures for your projects.  

Seasonal outbreaks of flu and the current COVID-19 pandemic has exposed temporary needs and solutions which has created additional opportunities for ER-Healthcare to assist the healthcare industry and medical office buildings. 
ER-Healthcare servers southern Louisiana. We have a 1 Hour Response to New Orleans, Baton Rouge and the North Shore areas. Call us at 877-378-4183 and we will return your call promptly.