What is IAQ?
Indoor air quality (IAQ) refers to the quality of the air inside a building. IAQ has been one of the biggest “buzzwords” in the commercial building industry for the last decade. The general consensus in the industry is that the majority of commercial buildings have poor levels of indoor air quality. The complex process of ventilation is the key to providing proper IAQ.
Surprising as it may sound, a lot of individuals, organizations, business, and institutions do not know what IAQ or “Indoor Air Quality” is, or the crucial role it plays in the health and productivity of the inhabitants of a building or home. Indoor Air Quality is exactly what it sounds like the quality of the air we breath indoors and the same ideas that we accept about outdoor air quality and environmental/air pollution apply to IAQ, only more so, because most of us spend more time indoors than outdoors.
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