Swegon: Hitting the Humidity Sweet Spot
2021-03-20
Simply increasing ventilation rates to reduce indoor transmission of airborne viruses may not deliver the right result.The Covid-19 crisis has thrust the work of building services engineers into the public eye and placed the effectiveness of ventilation systems, in particular, under close scrutiny. However, while the general public may now have a better idea of why controlled, mechanical ventilation is important to maintain healthy indoor conditions, the focus on increasing air change rates has rather over-simplified the message.