Your Building's Immune System 101 - From Anthrax to Ebola

摘要

When it comes to protecting a building's occupants from airborne dangers within the building and from outside which are attempting to come in, your building has an immune system similar to that of your own. Your building has two lines of defense, yet it is the building owner, manager, or facility engineer that determines the strength of that immunity. The health of your facility's thermal envelope - its skin - its' ability to keep thermal comfort heating and cooling in, and outside air and contaminates out, is measured by the amount of environmental leakage around doors and windows. The lungs of your building - its air handling units - which introduce the regulatory required amount of outside fresh air, is your building's second line of defense.