Clean Air, Healthy Schools Part 1:
A Roadmap for Clean, Healthy Indoor Air in K-12 Schools
Thursday January 13, 2022 @ 11am-12pm MST
Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) is one of the most prevalent health and safety topics arising from the Covid-19 Pandemic. Scientists and health experts in Canada and around the globe agree that improving IAQ in schools can not only help reduce transmission risk of viruses, but improve cognitive function, learning, and overall health and well-being.
However, the complexity and disparity of buildings and mechanical systems across different schools means that a “one-size-fits’ all” won’t work. With the myriad of technology, research, products, and tools available to help improve IAQ, it can be difficult to know where to start when it comes to embarking on a program to improve IAQ in your schools. Until now
This webinar – the first in a 3-part series – will help facility, health, and safety professionals gain a better understanding of key Indoor Air Quality principles and how to develop a practical roadmap for improving Indoor Air Quality in K-12 schools.
Key topics covered will include:
- Foundational topics and principles of healthy indoor air quality (IAQ)
- What COVID-19 has taught us about indoor air quality
- IAQ realities and challenges facing K-12 schools
- A roadmap for improving IAQ in schools
- Maintaining healthy IAQ over time
By the end of this session, you will have gained practical IAQ knowledge, strategies, and new resources that you can use to implement both immediately and over the long-term. This first webinar sets a foundation that we’ll build upon in our subsequent webinar 2 and webinar 3.
Presented By:
Roberta MacGillivray, (letters)
Chief Executive Officer,
BGE Indoor Air Quality Solutions
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Kevin Delahunt, (letters)
Senior Technical Advisor,
BGE Indoor Air Quality Solutions
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Ian MacGillivray, (letters)
SVP, Corporate Development,
BGE Indoor Air Quality Solutions
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Clean Air, Healthy Schools Part 2:
Optimizing your Existing Central HVAC & Filtration Systems for Better IAQ in Schools
Thursday January 20, 2022 @ 11am-12pm MST
The Covid-19 pandemic has heightened IAQ awareness and driven enhanced recommended guidelines and protocols for HVAC systems and healthy buildings and schools. In this Part 2 of our Clean Air, Healthy Schools webinar series, we will dive deeper into these best practices and recommended protocols and provide a more in-depth review of the ways schools can maximize their existing HVAC and filtration system performance to improve indoor air quality.
With many considerations and options available – but often limited resources and budgets – the goal should be prioritizing improvements that will yield the best overall system performance and ultimately have the most impact on the IAQ parameters that matter most. Based on our 50+ years of expertise in the industry – including extensive work in schools across Western Canada – we will share experiences, recommendations, strategies, and tools to help ensure you’re getting the most out of your existing HVAC and indoor air quality systems.
Specific topics will include:
- Updated recommended HVAC system practices & protocols
- Conducting baseline HVAC and IAQ assessments
- System integrity & performance
- Filtration & filtration upgrades
- System hygiene/cleaning
- Service and preventative maintenance
- IAQ testing and monitoring
- Considerations for future planning & upgrades
By the end of this session, you will have gained practical knowledge, strategies, and resources that you can use to implement both immediately and over the long-term. This second webinar builds upon concepts introduced in webinar 1 and will help set the foundation for a productive webinar 3
Presented By:
Randy Drage, (letters)
Senior Technical Advisor,
BGE Indoor Air Quality Solutions
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Ian MacGillivray, (letters)
SVP, Corporate Development,
BGE Indoor Air Quality Solutions
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Clean Air, Healthy Schools Part 3:
Portable Air Purifiers in Schools: Important facts, Considerations, and Decisions to Make Before Investing.
Thursday January 27th, 2022 @ 11am-12pm MST
The CDC, Health Canada, and many provincial authorities are now recommending the addition of HEPA-based portable air purifiers to help prevent long-range transmission of respiratory viruses, especially in spaces with poor natural or mechanic ventilation – which unfortunately includes many spaces in K-12 schools (especially older schools).
For nearly 40 years, BGE has been installing, testing, and certifying HEPA filtration technology to protect laboratories, cleanrooms, surgical suites (in hospitals), and other highly sterile environments across Canada. It’s proven technology that works very well to capture airborne pathogens such as viruses and we can now deploy this same filtration into workspaces, offices, and schools using portable in-room air purifiers.
However, choosing the right purifiers and deploying them properly in a given space is a little more complex than may meet the eye. There are some reasonably simple, yet critically important factors and considerations that schools must assess before investing in air purifiers.
In this part 3 of our Clean Air, Healthy Schools series, we will help you better understand this technology and what it does (and doesn’t do). We’ll also guide you through a proven step-by-step process to assess which spaces would benefit from air purifiers (and which ones don’t need one) and how to properly size and choose the right units for each space.
Specific topics will include:
- Aerosols, viruses, and long-range airborne transmission
- How to assess and prioritize areas of higher risk that may benefit from a purifier
- What purifiers actually do (and don’t do)
- How portable air purifiers should be used as supplemental technology, and only after other simpler IAQ improvement measures have been implemented
- Deciding how many “clean air changes per hour” you want to achieve
- The critical importance of conducting space and ventilation assessments before investing in air purifiers (and how to do those assessments)
- Choose and sizing the right room air purifiers for a given space
- Maintenance and other practical and operational considerations for schools
By the end of this session, you will have the knowledge, a process, and a set of tools to help you make insightful, data-driven decisions around deployment of room air purifiers for your schools.
Presented By:
Ian MacGillivray, (letters)
SVP, Corporate Development,
BGE Indoor Air Quality Solutions
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Randy Drage, (letters)
Senior Technical Advisor,
BGE Indoor Air Quality Solutions
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Ken Barkley, (letters)
Manager, Critical Environment Solutions
BGE Indoor Air Quality Solutions
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