In October, students at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, held an intimate jazz concert at a bar downtown, with an audience of about 20 peers and faculty members — all of whom held digital ...

Tougher environmental regulations are pushing for more energy efficient coal plants. Every kilowatt counts, and the boiler building ventilation system can free up many of them. With the final Clean ...

A nanofiber air filter developed at the University of Chicago could turn existing building ventilation into carbon-capture devices while cutting homeowners’ energy costs. A life-cycle analysis shows ...

If we do not have a place to push the heat and smoke out of the building and we introduce water to extinguish the fire then all of the heat and smoke will be coming back on the interior team. If ...

There’s a debate within the multifamily building community as to the best way to ventilate residential buildings. There are three competing design options that can be implemented in residential design ...

In the 138 classrooms and labs currently in use this semester by students and faculty, building ventilation systems bring in 100 percent fresh, outside air while exhausting 100 percent of the rooms’ ...

Upgrading a building's ventilation system can improve the delivery of clean air while maintaining energy efficiency and low costs, according to the CDC. Improving a building’s ventilation system can ...

There's new information about the simple tools you can use to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. A new study finds that in parts of the U.S. where face masks are mandatory, as many as 450,000 cases ...

Ventilation is required to provide fresh air to the occupants of buildings, primarily to remove body odours and carbon dioxide from breath. This requirement is an order of magnitude greater?than the ...

Editor’s Note: Every Wednesday, James Hamblin takes questions from readers about health-related curiosities, concerns, and obsessions. Have one? Email him at [email protected]. The ...