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News

Important Update: Client Portal Discontinued Temporarily

BGE is temporarily discontinuing the Client Portal while we work to improve the self serve features on our software programs.

News

BGE Indoor Air Quality Solutions Has Acquired Con-Test

BGE Indoor Air Quality Solutions (BGE), a Canadian leader in Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and air filtration today announced they are acquiring CON-TEST, Canada’s leading provider of Controlled Environment Services.

Case Study

Clearing The Air: Enhanced IAQ And Efficiency At West Edmonton Mall

This case study highlights how BGE’s TP4500HVT filter improved air quality and efficiency at West Edmonton Mall, delivering significant cost savings and operational benefits for the WEM Facilities & Engineering team.

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Proudly Canadian

BGE is proudly Canadian-owned, operated, and dedicated to manufacturing high-quality air filtration products at our Edmonton facility, tailored specifically to meet the needs of Canadian industries. With over 50 years serving Western Canadian businesses, we remain committed to enhancing indoor air quality, sustainability, and supporting local economies.

News

Are You Prepared For Wildfire Season?

When it comes to wildfires, not only are these potentially devastating natural disasters, they can also have a severe impact on our health and our facilities for a long time after the fire is suppressed. In fact, the indoor air quality can be compromised by up to 20x during and after a wildfire.

Education & Training

Spring Into Cleaner Air

Spring is in the air! As the season changes, so does the quality of the air we breathe. With the arrival of allergens, poplar fluff, dust, and debris, it’s crucial to ensure your HVAC system is ready to provide clean, healthy indoor air.

Industry Guidance

Breathing Easy

While it’s true there’s more than meets the eye when it comes to indoor air quality, it doesn’t mean we need to fear it.

Industry Guidance

Going From Good to Great

Strategies to Optimize Indoor Air Quality

Industry Guidance

Ventilation & COVID-19

As we have been learning about and navigating through the COVID-19 pandemic for the last 12 months, there has been so much information and misinformation about this virus.

Industry Guidance

Re-Opening Restaurants Safely

The recent announcement of the re-opening of some businesses in Alberta, such as restaurants, is welcoming news but it also comes with expectations of a healthy and safe environment.

Industry Guidance

If It Doesn’t Fit, It Doesn’t Filter

To ensure you are getting value for your filter money look closely, and critically, at how the filter is secured in place.

Industry Guidance

Do I Really Need An Air Purifier?

It is not uncommon these days to hear water cooler or dinner table talk turning to the subject of COVID-19 and Portable Room Air Purifiers.

Industry Guidance

Not All Air Purifiers Are Created Equal

How should you think about the right air purifier for your environment? It’s easy to get caught up in marketing claims and feature lists.

News

Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Monitoring is a Game Changer

Education & Training

IAQ Monitoring: A Winning Strategy

The lingering COVID-19 pandemic has created a heightened awareness of indoor air quality, and for business owners and facility managers around the world, improving indoor air quality jumped to the top of the priority list.

Industry Guidance

IAQ Monitoring – Q&A With Randy Drage

We had the opportunity to sit down with BGE veteran, Randy Drage, as he walked us through some key information for indoor air quality monitoring.

News

BGE Announces Strategic Partnership with Kaiterra

BGE Indoor Air Quality Solutions, the leader in providing filtration and indoor air quality (IAQ) solutions throughout Western Canada today announced a strategic partnership with Kaiterra.

Education & Training

Room Air Purifiers May Not Always Help

Room Air Purifiers are designed to purify or “clean” the air passing through them. With a good HEPA system, they can be as effective at capturing viruses such as COVID-19 as they are at capturing dust particles, pollen, spores, etc.

Education & Training

Air Purifier Sizing: What Do You Need?

Determine first how much ventilation (clean air of a specified quality*) you either need or want as a minimum refreshing into the space every hour or every chosen time period.

Case Study

Clean Air Award Spotlight – Brenda Strafford Foundation

BGE would like to congratulate the Brenda Strafford organization, Gerard Batara, Director of Capital Projects and Infrastructure, along with a team of building operators from the Brenda Strafford Foundation on earning NAFA Clean Air Awards for multiple buildings.

News

Unprecedented Year for NAFA Clean Air Awards

BGE Celebrates 26 Customers recognized by the National Air Filtration Association (NAFA) with Clean Air Awards for 2023.

Education & Training

NCT Certification

The special recognition of the NCT certification demonstrates a high level of proficiency in the air filtration industry and allows for the public promotion of your qualified service technicians.

Industry Guidance

Sustainable, Healthy Buildings In Action

Sustainable, Healthy Buildings in Action: New Solar Power & IAQ Monitoring Tech at the Edmonton Convention Centre

Industry Guidance

An Alberta refinery prioritizes clean air and wins a 2022 NAFA Clean Air Award

In partnership with BGE Clean Air Advisor Brian Worsdall, they made enhancements to their systems to ensure they were following industry best practices and due diligence in order to provide safe working environments.

Industry Guidance

IAQ transparency was a key driver for NAFA Clean Air Awards

BGE would like to congratulate Jason Dmetruk, Dustin Andrychuk, and their team of technicians from Bird Construction on earning a 2022 NAFA Clean Air Award.

News

18 BGE Customers Awarded with NAFA Clean Air Awards for 2022!

The Clean Air Awards are presented each year to the building owners and managers who take steps to significantly improve the quality of their indoor air by increasing the level or efficiency of their HVAC air filtration system in 10 specific categories.

Industry Guidance

Roberta MacGillivray, NCT, CAFS

Roberta is an alumni of the Alberta School of Business achieving a Bachelor of Commerce with a specialization in Management Information Systems.

Industry Guidance

Kevin Delahunt

Kevin Delahunt has been active in the Filtration and Indoor Air Quality industry for over 40 years.

Industry Guidance

Reflecting on 40 years with BGE – Bert LeBlanc

BGE Indoor Air Quality Solutions was started back in 1968 in Edmonton, Alberta. We are fortunate to have so many employees become part of our family and spend some of their most important years with us.

Industry Guidance

Randy Drage, NCT, CAFS

Randy has 30+ years of experience in air filtration and indoor air quality (IAQ) solutions.

Industry Guidance

BGE Fire Mitigation Program

In May 2016, Fort McMurray experienced one of the most devastating natural disasters in its history—a massive wildfire that burned for three months, destroying over 2500 homes and buildings, affecting over 1.5M acres of land.

Education & Training

Wildfire Season – Protecting Commercial Occupants From Smoke

With wildfires spreading across the Western provinces, the effects of smoke and contaminants are hard to ignore.

News

The Filters You Need. When You Need Them.

For over 50 years, BGE has been the leading filtration solutions provider in western Canada; we are proud that we’ve earned that reputation one customer at a time.

News

BGE Customers Land an Impressive Haul of NAFA Clean Air Awards for 2021

BGE Indoor Air Quality Solutions is pleased to announce that sixteen (16) of its customers’ facilities have won National Air Filtration Association (NAFA) Clean Air Awards for 2021.

Education & Training

A Guide To Improving Indoor Air Quality At Home

At BGE Indoor Air Quality Solutions, our purpose every day is to safely deliver clean, healthy indoor air environments for people, processes and places.

Case Study

Case Study: What an Aircheck revealed for one Alberta-based school division

When an Alberta-based school division Operations and Maintenance Department initially contacted BGE, it was merely to discuss the replacement of a few air filters for one of their schools.

News

Insider’s Perspective: 2021 National Air Filtration Association Annual Convention

It has been some time since the National Air Filtration Association (NAFA) last met in person (26 months to be exact; September of 2019 in Montreal).

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Clearing the Air: A Chat with Clean Air Advisor, Dylan Burrows

Dylan Burrows is a Clean Air Advisor in BGE’s Calgary branch. Today we spoke to Dylan about why our recent campaign focusing on conducting “Airchecks” for Long-Term Care facilities had so much meaning for him.

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A Chat With Roberta MacGillivray

BGE Indoor Air Quality Solutions has purchased CON-TEST to become Canada’s largest provider of testing and certification for Controlled Environments.

Your Partners In Clean Air

Call 780-436-6960 today to speak with a BGE Clean Air Advisor.

Proudly Canadian