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TECH-12 Building Envelopes for Healthy & Resilient Buildings in a Post-COVID-19 Pandemic World

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RESNET February 5, 2021

Think of the building envelope as the protective skin or PPE of the building and the HVAC system as the internal lymphatic system to maintain internal health and help suppress pathogen propagation and survival within the building’s body. These systems must work together. The present COVID-19 pandemic is not the only reason to consider that it may be time to apply this “healthy building” knowledge to a broader array of buildings, but perhaps it is the crisis that may finally cause appropriate action to be more broadly considered, accepted, and implemented.

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