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Enhanced indoor air quality strategies

Enhanced indoor air quality strategies

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Enhanced indoor air quality strategies

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- [Instructor] Project teams can earn additional points for implementing enhanced indoor air quality strategies. Let's review what these are. The first enhanced strategy is installing permanent entryway systems, which includes grates, grills, slotted systems, that allow for cleaning underneath, and rollout mats. These systems must be at least 10 feet long, in the primary direction of travel, to capture dirt and dust. The second enhanced indoor air quality strategy, indoor cross contamination prevention, applies to spaces where hazardous gases or chemicals may be present or used. Such as garages, housekeeping and laundry areas and copy and printing rooms. Project teams can earn points by sufficiently isolating and exhausting these areas, by providing self-closing doors and day to day partitions or a hardened sealing. The next enhanced IAQ solution is filtration ventilation systems that supply outdoor air to occupied spaces, The filters must meat a Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value…

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