Fostering your facilities to be healthy and smart

According to researchers, the average person spends 90% of their lives indoors, or 72 years of an 80 year life (1). Before the pandemic, the idea of a healthy building was gaining in popularity and some of the concepts like noise reduction and healthy light seemed like good ideas, but hardly urgent or pressing to update. As the COVID-19 pandemic nears the two year mark, facility managers know all too well at this point the health concerns people have inside of their buildings and it primarily deals with one of those healthy building concepts - air quality. As Amazon’s chief health officer, Vin Gupta, recently stated, the biggest health challenge for public and work spaces this century will be ventilation and air quality (1). So what does it mean for a building to have healthy air quality, how does this change what it means to be a smart building and what can you do to stay in front of this change? Let’s take a closer look.

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