NAFA Guidelines Committee Develops Two New Guidelines

The NAFA Guidelines Committee has published two new Guidelines for 2022, Indoor Cannabis Growing and Continuing Care for Retirement Communities. You can check out all our guidelines here: https://www.nafahq.org/nafa-best-practice-guidelines/. The committee is currently updating all NAFA Guidelines and developing a schedule to publish two guidelines per year. NAFA Guidelines are a series of air filtration best practice guidelines based on these industry codes, but that go further to recommend and incorporate the “highest level of air filtration standards” for specific applications. 

Filtration for Indoor Cannabis Growing

Recommendations for indoor cannabis growing facilities will address the particulate capture of recirculated air, exhaust air and outside make up air. In addition, this publication will examine Odor control within the cultivation facility and on exhaust applications, Air disinfection for powdery mildew, Botrytis and other microorganisms commonly found within the cultivation facility, and Operating and maintenance of filtration systems. Finally, this document will address issues related to COVID-19, utilizing rapidly evolving knowledge provided by available research and government guidelines.

Filtration for Continuing Care Retirement Communities

Continuing care retirement communities consist of three main areas of care –independent living, assisted living, and skilled nursing. This air filtration guideline recommends the removal of particulate contaminants by using MERV 13 filtration in independent living, MERV 14 filtration in assisted living and skilled nursing, and isolated use of HEPA and molecular filtration throughout the facilities. The recommendations in this guideline are considered by NAFA to be “best practice” in contrast to “minimum standards” put forth by other organizations. They serve to provide the conscientious facility manager with the necessary guidelines to make measurable differences of air quality in their building.