Althoff Industries, Inc. Blog: Posts Tagged ‘Indoor Air Quality’

The Biggest Threats to Commercial Indoor Air Quality Today

Monday, July 8th, 2024
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Maintaining optimal indoor air quality (IAQ) inside commercial buildings is crucial. We have a long history servicing the needs of Chicagoland businesses, so we understand the complexities and challenges involved in managing commercial indoor air quality. These challenges are always changing, and issues like hidden indoor air hazards have become an even more important factor during the last twenty years.

Today, we’re going to look at the current major threats to the quality of the air inside commercial facilities. We offer services for commercial indoor air quality in St. Charles, IL and through Chicagoland that will help you improve IAQ for your business, benefiting employees, the public, equipment, and processes.

What causes poor indoor air quality in commercial buildings?

  • Inadequate ventilation
  • Indoor pollutants such as dust, mold spores, and VOCs
  • Poor humidity and temperature control
  • Lack of regular HVAC maintenance

These issues can cause contaminants to build up indoors, affecting comfort, health, and productivity.

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Commercial Heating & Maintaining Good Indoor Air Quality

Monday, March 20th, 2023
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Whatever type of heating system you use for your commercial facility (rooftop units, radiant heating systems, boilers, gas furnaces, etc.), you must also pay attention to your facility’s indoor air quality (IAQ). Unfortunately, indoor air quality is often low for commercial properties, especially during times when the heating system needs to run. To ensure the best efficiency for a commercial heating system, the facility needs to stay sealed from the outside, and this contributes to poor ventilation and lack of fresh air. 

Poor indoor air quality creates multiple problems: health issues for occupants, lowered productivity for employees, damage to equipment (particularly electronics) and building materials, and even a drop in the value of the property. 

What can you do to ensure the best IAQ for your commercial property while heating it? We’ll look at several actions you can take.

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Indoor Air Quality Problems That Can Affect Offices

Monday, January 23rd, 2023
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Indoor air quality for offices is a major concern today because of the ongoing pandemic and its effects on businesses around the world. Although the worst of the pandemic appears to be behind us, it has altered the way people think of air quality inside offices and brought more focus to the general ways to identify and combat low commercial indoor air quality.

We work extensively with commercial indoor air quality in Bolingbrook, IL and throughout Chicagoland, and we’ve been doing so since 1962. We handle indoor air quality (IAQ) for all types of commercial and industrial facilities. Office spaces are frequently overlooked when it comes to IAQ. We’re going to look at how the IAQ in your office can drop and the different sources behind it. Indoor air quality in offices is also a matter of occupational safety, with organizations such as OSHA and NIOSH setting standards and guidelines to ensure safe workplace environments.

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Tuesday, June 1st, 2021

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