A colleague of mine was the project manager on a commissioning project for a build-out at a five-story, 150,000-sq-ft laboratory building at a large university. The commissioning team was finding it ...

Hospitals appear to be on their own when it comes to preventive maintenance of laboratory ventilation systems. Although hospital labs are highly regulated, government agencies and voluntary ...

The laboratories on Northwestern’s campus turn out cutting edge research, and they also use a lot of energy. Labs are particularly energy hungry spaces due to the need to run energy intensive ...

Walls lined with humming fume hoods are a defining feature of many chemistry laboratories. These safety devices, part of a lab’s overall ventilation system, suck hazardous airborne chemicals away from ...

A Newton-based company announced Tuesday that it’s been awarded a $1.2 million contract to install an air-quality monitoring system in University of Massachusetts Medical School laboratories. Aircuity ...

Roughly 85% of recently installed HVAC systems in K-12 classrooms investigated in California did not provide adequate ventilation, according to a study from UC Davis and the Department of Energy's ...