Clean Air
for a Healthy Future NEMIC provides essential IAQ training for contractors and their workforces in the fight against airborne illnesses By / Sheralyn Beleau When New Jersey first dispersed COVID mitigation funds, some schools bought plastic fans for classroom windows. The fans brought in fresh air but made the rooms unlivable in winter. A school in Sacramento spent millions of COIVD mitigation dollars on portable air filters to purify classroom air. They quickly found that teachers were turning the air filters down because the noise was drowning out discussions. Worse, each air purifier could clean only one eighth of a classroom, so they all had to be returned. Many schools and businesses have made similar knee-jerk purchases. “We’ve got a once in a lifetime, generational opportunity to get the funding we need to solve IAQ problems,” says 14 » Partners in Progress » www.pinp.org