EB&I Get's Hospitals and Other Public Spaces Equipped for COVID-19 and IAQ
EB&I is used to setting up air flow, testing indoor air quality and performing life saving room tightness testing on ISO and OR rooms. Now, with Covid-19 the need for indoor air quality ventilation assessment (IAQ) has hit an all time need.
“As the coronavirus began spreading across the country in the spring, Albuquerque-based Energy Balance & Integration LLC (EB&I) was tasked with helping retrofit the decommissioned medical building to handle an upturn of positive cases. The challenge: Convert the vacant Gibson Medical Center into a negative pressure environment with 200 beds to isolate patients infected with COVID-19. Essentially, that means configuring air flow in patient rooms so that coronavirus contagions inside the rooms can’t escape.”
Gibson Medical Center
In short, TAB can be defined as Testing, adjusting, and balancing air and hydronic flows in a building. These flows are measured, adjusted, and documented to meet design specifications and local building codes to ensure thermal comfort, indoor air quality, and the optimization of energy efficiency.
Today, TAB techs are utilizing these skills to improve the quality of the air we breath and bring safety to those who breath it.
When setting up hospitals, pressure between spaces can mean the difference between safety and exposure. As the leading company in New Mexico certifying OR, ISO and labs in pressure gradient testing for decades, EB&I knows how to set up safe spaces.
EB&I at Work
EB&I is now playing a hand in IAQ in schools, offices and other public spaces in an effort to create the safest spaces and highest indoor air quality possible.
With IAQ at the forefront of need, EB&I plans to play a major role in the coming months, bringing safety to all public buildings where TAB is needed.