Phil Mangnall, national sales manager for Jaga Heating Products (UK), discusses the considerations that design engineers must be aware of when looking at the options for providing ventilation in a care home environment
There are certain scenarios that increase the importance of the choices made when designing ventilation systems. In care homes, where the careful specification of all building services is crucial, indoor air quality is an issue that has a direct impact on what matters most –the health and wellbeing of residents.
In recent years, concerns have shifted from a focus on the environment to looking at the ‘invironment’ (a term used to describe the indoor environment), the general air quality within buildings and its impact on the overall health of care home residents
Good indoor air quality has been defined by the Chartered Institution of Building Service Engineers (CIBSE) as “air with no known contaminants at harmful concentrations”. Ventilation literally is the provision of fresh air into a space. The problem is that the use of the word fresh is not always entirely accurate. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), indoor air is two to 10 times more polluted than the air outside.1
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