Most commercial buildings are mechanically ventilated by taking in fresh air, heating or cooling it as necessary, and then distributing the air back to the workspace via grills. However, in order to reduce energy costs, a proportion of the air, perhaps up to 60%,...
Unfortunate events in Beirut on the 4th of August 2020 shone a light once again on the extreme dangers of Ammonium nitrate storage. This incident is the fourteenth known industrial Ammonium nitrate disaster since the deadly fertiliser factory explosion in Toulouse,...
I was recently surprised to see a Request for Tender (RFT) for a replacement of old school boiler by yet another fossil fuelled boiler. This RFT was on the Irish Office of Government Procurement website last week and was for a primary school in a rural area of Co....
My last blog on increased incidents of asthma associated with gas cookers created a lot of interest. However, the issue of indoor pollutants, especially PM2.5 and PM10, has taken on a wider significance with the current lockdown. Normally, those of us who work away...
A recent article linking the use of gas cookers with asthma caught our eye. The study in the US concluded that gas cookers exposed people to high levels of contaminants such as carbon dioxide, nitrous oxides and possibly carbon monoxide. The study also found that...
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFICIENCY LTD. TO OFFER WELL PERFORMANCE TESTING FOR PROJECTS PURSUING THE WELL BUILDING STANDARD (Dublin, 20 November 2019) – Environmental Efficiency Ltd. is proud to announce that as a WELL Performance Testing Organization, it will now offer...
Sites with licences from the Irish EPA are required to have a bund integrity assessment every three years. The fact that there have been no incidents on the EPA incidence database caused by bund failure shows that the system of inspection is working well. The...
LEED v4 Building Design + Construction Guide (BD + C) applies to buildings seeking LEED Certification that are being newly constructed or going through a major renovation - New Construction, Core and Shell, Schools, Retail, Healthcare, Data Centers, Hospitality,...
Most environmental monitoring is straight forward with off the shelf equipment available. However, when Roughan O'Donovan Consulting Engineers asked us to undertake monitoring of chloride deposition at Dublin Port, there was no off the shelf equipment available. When...