The Sunday Times and the Evening Standard have both published articles this week about building new homes in polluted areas using airtight windows and doors to prevent the ingress of pollution into the home to protect occupants.

By “Sealing up Homes”, a compulsory requirement for mechanical ventilation into the home using positive air systems or whole house ventilation would be required. Utilising mechanical ventilation systems offers the benefit of being able to filter polluted supply air as it enters the home using an air filter such as the Airclean Indoor Air Quality Filtration System to remove harmful pollutants, and making the air in the home safer to breathe.

Airclean’s Indoor Air Quality Filtration System is designed to work in conjunction with both domestic and commercial mechanical ventilation and heat recovery (MVHR) systems to filter the supply air being drawn into the occupied space. The Airclean Indoor Air Quality Filtration System is designed and tested to remove air pollution including Nitrogen Dioxide and Particulate Matter (PM10, PM2.5, and PM1), proven to be harmful to health.

The national news are following this story in light of a white paper being released next week that experts are pressing to include systems and methods such as this, to protect occupants in their homes in areas across the UK that are known by local authorities to be breaching air quality limits.

Further Reading –

“Airtight houses needed to protect Londoners from rise in pollution, experts say” – Evening Standard 1st Feb 2017

“Homes will be sealed against poisoned air” – Greg Hurst – The Times 30th Jan 2017

Happy New Year to all of our customers and suppliers. We hope you have all enjoyed your Christmas break and feel rested and motivated for 2017.

Our full office and factory teams are back to work and operating this morning, and we are looking forward to new opportunities and challenges throughout the year ahead.

On 6th October 2016 Airclean are exhibiting at the Kent Construction Expo Conference and Exhibition being held at Kent Event Centre, Detling. This free exhibition claims to be the largest FREE exhibition and conference for the construction sector.

If you are already attending or fancy a trip out to see whats going on in your industry, please drop by our stand and say hello! More details about the event are available at www.kentconstructionexpo.co.uk

An increase in commercial catering kiosks opening in cities and towns across the UK has seen local authorities tightening their guidelines on the potential discharge of nuisance smoke and odour from outlets. Our technical sales teams have seen an increased demand for low profile outdoor filtration systems for catering kiosks to meet DEFRA and local authority guidelines on nuisance smoke and odour control.

Our range of low profile Kitchavents which are less than 400mm in height are proving beneficial to catering kiosk designers as they can be mouted externally on the roof without impacting the visual design of the catering booth. This low profile kitchen odour control system was originally designed to fit in low profile ceiling voids, but has found a new popularity for the semi permanent and mobile catering kiosks.

Airclean’s Kitchavents are fully welded and painted, and can have an optional weather proof roof fitted to withstand all outdoor conditions.

Airclean’s Kitchavent range offers grease, odour and smoke control for kitchen extract airflow duties from as low as 0.13m3/s up to 10m3/s.

Click here to check out our webpage and data sheet for the Kitchen Grease, Smoke and Odour Control System, or give the sales team a call to discuss your requirements – 01622 832777