System-Level Framework for Achieving Healthy IAQ While Decarbonizing Buildings Outlined in New White Paper

A system-level framework for enabling low-energy, high IAQ, climate-resilient buildings has been published. The framework, introduced as the Clean First approach, is detailed in a new white paper, “How to Achieve Sustainable Indoor Air Quality: A Roadmap to Simultaneously Improving Indoor Air Quality & Meeting Building Decarbonization and Climate Resiliency Goals.” The white paper was developed by enVerid Systems in collaboration with 75F, Awair, GIGA, Oxygen8, Planled and SafeTraces.

The Clean First framework is based on a four-step process that building owners and operators, architects, energy-efficiency consultants, and mechanical engineers and contractors can follow to achieve sustainable IAQ. The framework draws on lessons learned from the pandemic and recent updates to building standards to address the growing need to decarbonize both new and existing commercial buildings while simultaneously improving IAQ.

The core thesis of the paper is that improving IAQ with optimized ventilation and air cleaning need not conflict with building decarbonization and climate resilience goals and, in many cases, can reduce a building’s carbon footprint.

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