Chris Ruch, NEMI director of education, and Jeremy Zeedyk, NEMI northeast representative, recently spoke with Samantha Russo, multimedia content specialist for Engineered Systems Magazine, about ventilation verification. Click below to see the full interview.

Although an initiative to verify the ventilation and carbon dioxide levels in schools was in the works before the pandemic, the transmission of COVID-19 inside buildings quickly became a concern for the general public that previously paid little attention to their indoor air quality.

Key takeaways:

• NEMI compiled free resources on its website to help engineers sit down with customers and provide options for ventilation and indoor air quality improvement.
• Educated decisions, in lieu of assumptions, allows design engineers to know exactly what is going on inside a system and make recommendations depending on their customers’ goals.
• Ventilation verification assessments allows building owners, school districts and taxpayers, who have all invested in infrastructure, to ask, “Does it function the way it’s supposed to?” This prevents unnecessary fixes, replacements and changes, saving customers money and allowing buildings to function as they were designed.