Let’s Say Goodbye to CO2 in Your Facility
Did you think what happens when you and your building occupants breathe in Carbon Dioxide?
After the incensement of human activities due to the industrial revolution more and more fossil fuels burnt to create energy as well as more and more CO2 emitted to the air and indoor air quality has become a fundamental issue worldwide. People don’t think much about CO2 until they are threatened by it. Not only for the human, but it is also a threat for our mother planet and it is often considered one of the main contributors to the greenhouse effect. However, did you think about what happens when you and your building occupants breathe in Carbon Dioxide and is Carbon Dioxide dangerous to you and your occupants? The answer is obviously yes, CO2 is dangerous to an individual person and high exposure to CO2 can be caused to drowsiness, increased heart rate, blood pressure, unconsciousness, and even life-threatening complications.
How to reduce CO2 concentration indoors?
Reduction of CO2 concentration is very important to make the indoor environment of a building meet occupants’ comfort and to fulfil their functional needs. Let’s see what are the ways that we can implement to recuse CO2 concentration indoors.
• Install and maintain a ventilation system that will bring fresh outdoor air and the CO2 particles will dilute in this air keeping a low CO2 concentration.
• Simple methods like opening a window will let the CO2 escape from the indoor and keeping the door open, you increase the amount of air that dilutes the gas and it will lower the CO2 levels.
• Avoid small, crowded areas are especially important for occupants because of the collective exhalation produced by the room’s occupants will make the CO2 levels skyrocket and for offices, having shorter meeting, holding meetings in a large space and organizing meetings in outside can be contributed to prevent overcrowding and lower the CO2 level.
• Incorporating plants not only boost your mood, concentration and creativity also contribute purify the air by converting CO2 into oxygen and absorb toxins.
• Limiting your exposure to VOCs paints and using nontoxic paints also contribute to the reduction of CO2 emission but today most of the interior paints with VOCs continue to off-gas for months or even years after the fresh paint smell disappears, unfortunately.
Reducing CO2 levels will help to boost mental health, improve productivity, reduce headaches and stress and we can contribute to reducing CO2 emissions to make our planet a better place for you and for me.
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