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What are you doing to enhance the quality of air indoors? Today's progressive building managers must address indoor air quality (IAQ). IAQ problems have resulted in productivity losses, occupant sickness, and property damage. These problems can lead to increased operating costs, tarnished management and building reputation, and diminished asset value.

Waco can help you solve your indoor air quality problems. We can assist you in developing a solutions-based approach to air quality, or we can assist you in our specialty: Contaminant Removal and Control. We at Waco can help you find realistic solutions to your air quality problems.

Waco Inc. follows a solutions-based approach to indoor air quality management, in its continuing partnership with building owners and property managers. The solutions-based approach establishes a comprehensive IAQ management program that is cost effective and unobtrusive.

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Initiating a Solutions-Based IAQ Management Program is a way to prevent potential problems. Reasons for initiating an IAQ Management Program include the following:

As a proactive measure to ensure good indoor air quality

To facilitate the investigation of a suspected or specific IAQ problem

As a management tool to improve tenant / employee satisfaction

Our solutions-based approach addresses the educational, building systems, and source management strategies of an IAQ management program, as outlined below:

Education: The commitment to address IAQ problems starts with the building owner or property manager; the person who has an overview of the organization, sets policy, and assigns staff responsibilities. Both the building owner and the property manager have the authority to see that an IAQ management program is articulated and carried out, the ability to identify staff with the skill to react promptly and effectively to complaints, and the incentive to initiate a program that will prevent future indoor air quality problems. The education process must therefore start with the individual in charge of the facility or his appointed representative.

Ventilation Strategies: Ventilation is one of the most significant factors in determining IAQ. It is a systematic, solutions-based approach that achieves much more than just increasing the amount of outside air brought into a building. Foremost, it ensures that the outside air is mixed properly in the room and delivered to the occupant's breathing zones. It also takes into account localized ventilation for process areas, proper systems balance, and ventilation strategies, such as night purge, demand control ventilation, and filtration.

Filtration: No ventilation system would be complete without a filtration system. Unfortunately, most buildings rely on low-efficiency, ineffective throw-away filters that do little to protect the ventilation systems or the building occupants. As a result, inadequate filtration has been implicated as one of the major causes of poor indoor air quality. The filtration system should be viewed as an effective tool in providing good indoor air quality by ensuring the removal of irrespirable and lung-damaging particles of less than 10 microns.

Systems Hygiene: All air conditioning and ventilation systems are composed of many mechanical parts, reservoirs, and sometimes miles of twisting ductwork, all of which collect dust and dirt. Contaminants in ductwork can include dead birds and rodents, rotting leaves, dust and soil. Air conditioning systems are a perfect breeding ground for biological contaminants due to their enclosed space, constant temperature, humidity, and dirt. Clean, well-maintained systems are both more efficient and provide better air quality. Click here for information about Waco's experience in duct cleaning.

Source Management: Source management encompasses a wide variety of activities, ranging from proper scheduling of renovation, maintenance, and cleaning activities, to the control of building products and occupant activities. Source management techniques require an understanding of the origin of potential sources in the building and knowledge of the ventilation systems' influence on sources and pollutant pathways. Source management techniques include: source removal, source modification, time and use adjustment of sources, and supplemental filtration or exhaust ventilation to source areas. Click here for information about Waco's experience in source management and contaminant removal.