CLEARING THE AIR: Three Reasons Why Air Handlers Contribute to Poor Indoor Air Quality

Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) has become a hot topic of discussion among Facilities professionals tasked with ensuring building occupant health and safety while balancing business continuity. One key area of focus has been on building…

March 11, 2021·

Refurbish, optimize, and extend the life of air handlers

Solutions for Fouled Air Handlers

Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and HVAC system hygiene have received more attention these past months than in recent memory. Today, their importance cannot be understated. Evolving environmental research and ASHRAE findings suggest poor IAQ amplifies the effects of…

January 5, 2021·

HVAC & Air Filtration: Best Practices to Minimize Disease

Thank you to those who attended FacilitiesNet’s webinar entitled “HVAC and Air Filtration: Best Practices to Minimize Infectious Disease”, on August 18, 2020, presented by Jim Newman of Newman Consulting Group and sponsored by AQUIS,…

August 21, 2020·

Ask Aquis about air handling unit cleaning and disinfecting

Evaluating Virus Containment Efficiency of Air-Handling Systems

This week, ASHRAE Journal released a new peer-reviewed Technical Feature article entitled “Evaluating Virus Containment Efficiency of Air-Handling Systems“. The relevance of this article to our longstanding mission here at AQUIS cannot be understated. As the…

July 17, 2020·

Air handlers: prime amplification site of harmful microbial growth in buildings

AHUs Help Amplify Microbial Growth

AQUIS introduces the first of its new line of IAQ Series brochures intended to educate facilities teams on the hidden sources of microbial growth in AHU’s, and their negative impact on indoor air quality. Ensuring…

May 14, 2020·

AQUIS COVID-19 Update: Resources to Ensure Hygienic HVAC Systems

AQUIS continues to work with facilities teams across the U.S. to create clean, hygienic air handlers by abating pathogenic growth on interior surfaces as well as providing deep cleaning through coil restoration, removing biofilms that…

March 18, 2020·

Aquis coil restoration and coil cleaning removes biofilms and improves indoor air quality (IAQ)

Have you heard the news about AQUIS?

AQUIS has expanded its service offerings! In addition to AHU Refurbishment, AQUIS now offers AHU Optimization through Coil Restoration. Click HERE to Learn More About AHU Optimization

January 8, 2020·

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Indoor Air…Quandary?

The pros and cons of increased reliance on building HVAC systems Eight years ago the U.S. Department of Energy implemented the “Better Buildings Challenge”, an initiative intended to improve the efficiency of U.S. buildings by…

September 30, 2019·

warning notice addressing the importance of regular equipment maintenance

Downtime

downtime doun-tahym (noun) 1: an interval during which a machine is not productive, as during repair, malfunction, maintenance. The Cost of Being Reactive vs. Proactive According to Plant Engineering’s 2018 Maintenance Study, 44% of…

January 28, 2019·

Not the summer pool party you had in mind?

The dog days of summer are here. It’s August at a major metropolitan hospital which still has over a dozen 30 year old air handling units in operation, all running at full tilt due to…

August 9, 2018·

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AHU Leaks: Avoid Summer Mayday Calls

As the hot summer months quickly approach, cooling systems will soon be operating at full capacity, putting mechanical equipment to the test. For facilities teams with older buildings and mechanical systems, this can instill a…

May 8, 2018·

Unnecessary Roughness Inside Your AHUs?

Is your Facilities Maintenance team ready to tackle cooling season for 2018? Superbowl season is upon us, but cooling season isn’t too far behind. With the variety of improvement projects you have planned for this…

January 26, 2018·

Leaders in Air Handler Renewal

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