California’s San Bernardino City Unified School District will install 3,700 Carrier OptiClean™ Dual-Mode Air Scrubber & Negative Air Machines to purify the air in classrooms across its 72 schools.
The campaign, which builds on an AHRI White Paper, Anatomy of a Healthy School, is designed to help building engineers maintain and design school buildings for occupancy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Helpful information for school district facility managers, administrators, and maintenance technicians as they prepare to re-open school buildings after an extended period of shutdown.
Built in 1921, A.K. Suter Elementary School in
Pensacola, Florida — like many older public
schools in the state — used a retrofitted
patchwork of packaged and split system air conditioning equipment to keep students comfortable in a warm, humid climate.
Create a strategic plan prior to opening a building. The plan should include measures to make occupants feel safer, ensuring supply chain for critical items, such as filters and communication plans for building support and safety measures for occupants.