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Manufacturing

Whether a site handles organic or inorganic materials, the hazards which can be present in industrial facilities can vary greatly. Facilities that handle organic goods carry a higher risk of microbial hazards whereas, facilities that handle inorganic products are more likely to encounter pollutants which could lead to respiratory problems such as asthma. While these hazards have always required mitigation, COVID-19 represents a new new microbial hazard which must be managed.

Dust particles in the air can contain toxic and immunotoxic chemicals and microbes which can cause lung problems. Sites and regions higher in air pollution enable also aid the spread of airborne contagions, and recent evidence demonstrates that particulate matter can exacerbate the spread of COVID-19.

Some measures that could be put in place are improved air filtration systems which will help remove dust particles etc from the air, there will have to be an increase in the air distribution as higher MERV or HEPA value filters reduce the total efficiency and air distribution of the HVAC system. Biofilm also builds up with microbial hazards to impose on filter efficiency and air flow rate. It is nearly always impractical to upgrade a factory ducted ventilation system without major plant and power upgrades which may not be possible physically or financially, but the careful deployment of germicidal ultraviolet disinfection systems can improve Covid-security without the need for costly engineering investments.

The use of UV-C systems within the HVAC system and on key components within the HVAC systems will ensure that airflow is kept at a maximum and that microbes are inactivated and removed from circulation as quickly as practicable. The use of targeted, more localised air recirculation systems that fitted UV-C may also pay dividends as bio-contamination will be removed swiftly without the contaminated air coming into contact with workers.

Areas of higher workforce aerosol generation and mixing such as canteens, changing rooms, toilets and corridors also need to be targeted for infection intervention.

Our industrial scale UVR fan assisted upper room emitters are capable of disinfecting large volumes of air, with no more than 1 part per million bacteria and viruses remaining. These patented and decades proven products are the most powerful upper room emitters in the world.

Because all of our air treatment systems are designed to prevent exposing people to their UV-C radiation, they can safely run 24/7 with people present.

Conventional surface cleaning may need supplementing in certain parts of factories and perhaps, direct UV-C lamp emitters for areas of particular surface cleaning risk could be added and installed on timers/movement sensors/contacts/interlocks to prevent personnel being exposed to direct UV-C light.

We are also able to create UV disinfection to conveyors, disinfection cabinet and rooms for products or returned goods which work in a similar way to the disinfection of hospital equipment.

The above infection intervention blend of solutions are not just cleaning the air and surfaces but disinfecting them to better than 99.99% efficacy.  This can help to protect people to the highest level practicably achievable when added into good management practices.

We are listed on the British Government’s Coronavirus (Covid-19) response group of Key Suppliers compiled by the Crown Commercial Service under the Medical Services Category (Catalogue Number:20200506-134848-1A770B / Medical Services)

Food

There are many serious types of human health hazards that can arise in food processing: Food-borne pathogens, microbes produced from spoilage, microbial allergens and food allergens, added to which, we now have the major health threat of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19).

Regarding COVID-19, food factories and abattoirs present some of the highest risk of any sector, operation or interior environment. This is particularly the case if they need to function in the 5-15°c temperature range and have high levels of relative humidity.

As professional engineers, scientists and medics we know intimately how to target the infection risks and design for you a bespoke solution by combining established and proven engineering and health technologies for any interior environment to take Covid-Assurance to a new level. Our solutions have been proven over decades in high risk applications against other microbial hazards. Our products have 80 years infection intervention deployment to help protect the food industry and uniquely, helping reduce coronavirus infections in Singapore and Hong Kong hospitals and other important buildings during the first SARS (Covid) pandemic in 2003.

We are listed on the British Government’s Coronavirus (Covid-19) response group of Key Suppliers compiled by the Crown Commercial Service under the Medical Services Category (Catalogue Number:20200506-134848-1A770B / Medical Services)

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Agriculture

Agricultural facilities pose a wide variety of microbial hazards some of which include infectious diseases from animals, allergies to animal dander, food stuffs and from mould spores in the air.

Any indoor animal facility potentially possesses higher levels of airborne microbes than any other indoor environment. Many animal pathogens are able to be transferred to humans through air and these pathogens can often cause respiratory problems for people who become infected. Studies have shown that some farmers may inhale up to 75,000 spores per minute when working around hay stores.

Natural ventilation is often abundant in agricultural settings, but to ensure constant, reliable air changes, mechanical ventilation combined with our UVGI systems will drastically reduce the risk of microbes being transmitted to workers. Upper room systems and after-hours agricultural sterilisation of food stores and storage facilities will benefit greatly as microbes that live on the food will be removed, which in turn reduces risk to workers.

As professional engineers, scientists and medics we know intimately how to target the infection risks and design for you a bespoke solution by combining established and proven engineering and health technologies for any interior environment to take Covid-Assurance to a new level. Our solutions have been proven over decades in high risk applications against other microbial hazards. Our products have 80 years infection intervention deployment and, uniquely, helping reduce coronavirus infections in Singapore and Hong Kong hospitals and other important buildings during the first SARS (Covid) pandemic in 2003.

Transport

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, public transport was conducive for microbial transmission, with many people from a wide range of geographical areas being in close contact with one another for sometimes prolonged periods of time and without reliable ventilation to clean and uncontaminated air as well as handling surfaces such as doors, grab bars and handles, seats, buttons and more.

Public transport has been identified as a particularly high risk setting for the transmission of COVID-19, which may be a long term, endemic health risk.

Travel is one of the main ways that any form of disease can also be transported between people, across regions and borders but it is also fundamental to the wider economy. In order to resume this key role, public transport settings must adapt to become more Covid-secure.

Aside from physical configuration issues, the interior “air-security” and surface hygiene has to be priority given the nature of the hazard, so inside environments now will need to reassess potential:

• Ventilation airflow rate rates,
• Zoning of passenger air
• Ventilation system filters
• Supply of clean, uncontaminated air
• Staff and passenger exposure to bio-aerosols

Due to having been designed prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, some types of interior spaces in public transport may actually accelerate infection because of their ventilation arrangements. Features which may exacerbate this include the use of recirculated air/ceiling cassette systems or floor heating grill systems.

Aircraft stand out as best practice due to the zoning of air distribution, high flow rates, good proportion of natural air intake and the use of HEPA air filters. These filters on their own will reduced the number of microbes in the air but contaminated airborne virus particles or microdroplets can be small enough to pass through these filters. However, by coupling these filters with UV-C technology, these systems can be retrofitted enable fast and efficient air disinfection, allowing people to breath cleaner, disinfected air which will help to significantly reduce the risk of transmission.

Toilet cubicles present very hazardous spaces from airborne and surface contamination and again, we have specific and proven products to inactivate all microbes in the air and disinfect visible surfaces.

Engineering improved air ventilation systems with UV-C air and surface treatment products may be a vital step to restoring safer transport and increasing passenger confidence.

As professional engineers, scientists and medics we know intimately how to target the infection risks and design for you a bespoke solution by combining established and proven engineering and health technologies for any interior environment to take Covid-Assurance to a new level. Our solutions have been proven over decades in high risk applications against other microbial hazards. Our products have 80 years infection intervention deployment and, uniquely, helping reduce coronavirus infections in Singapore and Hong Kong hospitals and other important buildings during the first SARS (Covid) pandemic in 2003

Utilities

Most microbes associated with sewage and waste are water borne or food borne pathogens and workers in these facilities are subject to many health hazards due to these microbes. Air borne hazards only exist due to the aerosolisation of these microbial pathogens which is an unavoidable consequence of handling waste. Many of these pathogens can create respiratory problems and illnesses for the workers at these facilities. Now in the Covid-era, faecal aerosols present a significant hazard to workers inside waste water plants.

The most effective way to reduce transmission is to reduce the number of microbes that are in the waste, our technology could be used to sterilise the waste as it enters the facility before it comes into contact with any workers creating a safer working environment from the start of the process.

The use of our systems within the HVAC system and on key components within the HVAC systems will ensure that all microbes are removed from the air flow before the air is recirculated which will help to promote a healthier working environment.

Out of hours systems would also prove extremely useful as they can be left on overnight when nobody is working to disinfect the whole facility ready for the next working day.

As professional engineers, scientists and medics we know intimately how to target the infection risks and design for you a bespoke solution by combining established and proven engineering and health technologies for any interior environment to take Covid-Assurance to a new level. Our solutions have been proven over decades in high risk applications against other microbial hazards. Our products have 80 years infection intervention deployment and, uniquely, helping reduce coronavirus infections in Singapore and Hong Kong hospitals and other important buildings during the first SARS (Covid) pandemic in 2003

Education

Education facilities presented a focal point of disease transmission, pre-Covid, due to the repeated close and long duration of interaction between pupils and teachers. Infections can then be transmitted from pupils to older age groups through secondary infection within the home.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, schools, further education and higher education establishments have been under increasing pressure to maintain quality education for children and young people while also preventing transmission of the virus. With the emergence of new strains of COVID-19 which may be more infectious to children and young people than was previously the case, schools are facing severe challenges. in keeping staff and students safe and preventing secondary transmission.

Aside from physical configuration issues, the interior “air-security” and surface hygiene has to be priority given the nature of the hazard, so indoor environments now will need to reassess potential:

• Ventilation airflow rate rates,
• Ventilation system filtration
• Supply of clean, uncontaminated air
• Staff and pupil exposure to bio-aerosols in all environments, particularly in classrooms, corridors and toilets.

Indeed, some types of interior spaces may actually accelerate infection because of their ventilation arrangements irrespective of following Covid-Secure Guidelines to the letter, e.g. recirculated air/ceiling cassette systems or low level heating or floor grill systems.

For schools to carry out their vital function in equipping children and young people with the skills and experiences to succeed and develop, it is crucial that schools can open safely and sustainably, with a blend of solutions to prevent COVID-19 transmission and the transmission of other illnesses.

As professional engineers, scientists and medics we know intimately how to target the infection risks and design for you a bespoke solution by combining established and proven engineering and health technologies for any interior environment to take Covid-Assurance to a new level. Our solutions have been proven over decades in high risk applications against other microbial hazards. Our products have 80 years infection intervention deployment and, uniquely, helping reduce coronavirus infections in Singapore and Hong Kong hospitals and other important buildings during the first SARS (COVID) pandemic in 2003.

We are listed on the British Government’s Coronavirus (Covid-19) response group of Key Suppliers compiled by the Crown Commercial Service under the Medical Services Category (Catalogue Number:20200506-134848-1A770B / Medical Services)

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Hospitals, dental surgeries, GP surgeries

Hygiene is crucial in all settings providing healthcare services, not least because of the presence of unwell patients who may be most vulnerable to any disease or infection. With COVID-19 putting healthcare settings such as hospitals under immense pressure, it is vital that healthcare professionals can continue to treat patients while mitigating the risk of staff becoming infected themselves or of patients and visitors transmitting the virus to others.

PP-L’s experience in healthcare is long-standing and our products were successfully deployed to prevent the transmission of SARS in hospitals in Singapore and Hong Kong during the coronavirus pandemic of 2003.

Despite the best efforts of staff and facilities managers, transmission of COVID-19 is incredibly high within healthcare settings. This is largely due to the virus being primarily spread through respitatory transmission, with airborne microdroplets or aerosols carrying the virus several metres and lingering in the air for many hours. Even the highest highest grade of medical filters are not small enough for something that can be less than 0.3 microns in size.  This is why “air-security” has to be priority given the nature of the hazard, so inside room environments now will in the majority of all buildings possess:

• Ventilation airflow rate rates,
• Ventilation system filtration
• Supply of clean, uncontaminated air
• Risk of exposure to bio-aerosols in all environments
• Zones and airlocks with negative pressure
• Contamination within common areas such as wards, corridors, canteens and toilet facilities

Indeed, some types of interior spaces may actually accelerate infection because of their ventilation arrangements, irrespective of the facilities managers following Covid-Secure Guidelines to the letter, e.g. recirculated air systems or low level heating or floor grill systems.

As professional engineers, scientists and medics we know intimately how to target the infection risks and design for you a bespoke solution by combining established and proven engineering and health technologies for any interior environment to take Covid-security to a new level.

We are able to assess your building configuration, engineering infrastructure, occupancy use and risks. We then will model and engineer a bespoke and probably blended photo-medical engineering solution to suit your asset and user requirements comprising better ventilation air flows, distribution, filtration AND crucially, as for SARS 2003 :carefully design and specify germicidal UV-C filaments to be installed into the air ducts, just past the coils & filters; improve filters and airflows where practicable; and install UV-C Upper Room Emitters at key locations, just as we have learned from the previous pandemic; all of which can run 24/7 with people safely present going about their business; and also, deploy direct UV-C lamp emitters for areas of particular surface hazard and cleaning risk on timers/movement sensors/contacts/interlocks because direct emitters should not be deployed in occupied spaces.

Covid-Secure Dental Practices

Dental practices have a number of infection hazards which can be readily managed through good hygiene and precautions which are common throughout dental practices.

However, COVID-19 poses siginficant new challenges for dental practices. Dental studios carry a heightened risk of surface contamination and airborne contamination. Patients often linger in reception or waiting areas, touch surfaces and produce volumns of aerosol which can carry COVID-19 and linger in the air for several hours. While ventilation can reduce the viral load in an environment, many spaces are poorly ventilated and it cannot be guaranteed that there are sufficient changes of air to eliminate the risk of infection.

Additionally, practice rooms themselves will have a very high aerosol load by the very nature of the AGP work undertaken by the dentist. Patients will undertake a variety of actions that will add to aerosol, from rinsing, spitting, and coughing to those more anxious patients that add more through heavy breathing, creating more viral risk from the human aerosol which can be airborne in the room for 3 hours. This is a contamination hazard to the staff and subsequent patients. The risk can be reduced however.

Dental practices must remain open, but they can’t do this by seeing only one patient potentially every 3 hours (allowing time for sufficient air changes through existing ventilation systems). Dentists need to be much more rigorous in reducing the risk of transmission to themselves, their employees and their patients. In order to do this, a dentist can employ a combination of strategies.

Wiping surfaces with disinfectant will reduce surface contamination but reduce the risk of airborne transmission, dentists can install air purification or air circulation devices which are fitted with UV-C disinfection systems. Combined with the high grade filters of air purifiers, which can still allow viral particles smaller than 0.3 microns (COVID-19 microdroplets can be just 0.1 micron), UV-C light can quickly and cost effectively disinfect the air and destroy any remaining viral particles that pass through the system. Combined, this can be a highly effective for small rooms within dental clinics.

GP Surgeries

While there is less risk of transmission than in hospitals and dental practices, GP surgeries are still high risk compared to other buildings for similar reasons to the above and the interventions are the same

• Better air flow rates and air changes
• Better HVAC filters
• Upper Room UV-C Devices above infectious patients, within isolation wards, airlock arrangements and patient holding spaces
• For non HVAC and poorly spaces: Upper Room UV-C and the same which is fan assisted to mix and disinfect air
• Surface disinfection via suitable cleaning agents and UV-C devices and Robots when spaces are unoccupied
• Do not neglect less obvious spaces such as common areas, corridors and toilets which in GP Clinics are probably amongst the highest infection risk areas.

The above infection intervention solutions are not just cleaning the air and surfaces but disinfecting them to better than 99.99% efficacy.

We are listed on the British Government’s Coronavirus (Covid-19) response group of Key Suppliers compiled by the Crown Commercial Service under the Medical Services Category (Catalogue Number:20200506-134848-1A770B / Medical Services)

Hotels

With hotel guests occupying rooms for prolonged periods of time, handling a wide range of surfaces and accessing common areas such as corridors, restaurants, bars, elevators and foyers, there is a higher risk of transmission within hotels, hostels and guest houses which must be mitigated if they are to be made safe.

Aside from physical configuration issues, the interior “air-security” and surface hygiene has to be priority given the nature of the hazard, so indoor environments now will need to reassess potential:

• Ventilation airflow rate rates,
• Ventilation system filters
• The reliable supply of uncontaminated, fresh air
• Exposure bioaerosols which is compounded in closer interaction spaces such as corridors, toilets where more mixing and poor air distribution is common.

Indeed, some types of interior spaces may actually accelerate infection because of their ventilation arrangements irrespective of following Covid-Secure Guidelines to the letter, e.g. common HVAC systems for heating and cooling: recirculated air/ceiling cassette systems or low level heating or floor grill systems. Laundry rooms are potentially high risk as is the operation of changing the bed laundry or cleaning hotel room bathrooms. Each area needs a different risk assessment and intervention to reduce infection to guests, staff and visitors.

The Government stance is stay at home. Don’t stay in hotels without exceptional and legitimate reason, but for this advice to change and for restrictions to be removed, it must be demonstrated that hotels can operate in a way which significantly reduces the risk of viral transmission.

We are able to assess your building configuration, engineering infrastructure, occupancy use and risks. We then will model and engineer a bespoke and probably blended photo-medical UV-C engineering solutions to suit your asset and user requirements comprising better ventilation air flows, distribution, filtration and, crucially, carefully designed and specified germicidal UV-C filaments installed into the air ducts, just past the coils & filters; and/or UV-C Upper Room Emitters, which can run non-invasively 24/7 with people safely present. We also recommend safety locked direct UV-C lamp emitters for areas of particular surface cleaning risk eg toilets.

The above infection intervention solutions are not just cleaning the air and surfaces but disinfecting them to better than 99.99% efficacy.

We are listed on the British Government’s Coronavirus (Covid-19) response group of Key Suppliers compiled by the Crown Commercial Service under the Medical Services Category (Catalogue Number:20200506-134848-1A770B / Medical Services)

Hospitality, restaurants and pubs

The hospitality industry has been severely affected by COVID-19 and restrictions which have sought to prevent its transmission. Indoor restaurants, pubs and entertainment venues necessarily involve people being in interior environments for prolonged periods of time and often without being required to wear a mask. This is made worse by the need for people to be in motion, for staff to be walking between tables and for kitchen teams often needing to work in close proximity. Small, busy, poorly ventilated environments are common and it is not possible for areas to be thoroughly sanitised and for existing ventilation to ensure sufficient air changes to prevent viral transmission.

Restaurants around the world have become infamous for some of the COVID-19 “super-spreading events” and it is unlikely that restrictions can be fully lifted for the sector until it can be proven that the risk of viral transmission can be successfully mitigated.

Aside from physical configuration issues, the interior “air-security” and surface hygiene has to be priority given the nature of the hazard, so indoor environments now will need to reassess potential:

• Ventilation airflow rate rates,
• Ventilation system filters
• The reliable supply of uncontaminated, fresh air
• Exposure to bioaerosols which is compounded in closer interaction spaces such as corridors, toilets where more mixing and poor air distribution is common.

Indeed, some types of interior spaces may actually accelerate infection because of their ventilation arrangements irrespective of following Covid-Secure Guidelines to the letter, e.g. common HVAC systems for heating and cooling: recirculated air/ceiling cassette systems or low level heating or floor grill systems; inner room configurations etc. Each area needs a different risk assessment and intervention to reduce infection to guests, staff and visitors.

We are able to assess your building configuration, engineering infrastructure, occupancy use and risks. We then will model and engineer a bespoke and probably blended photo-medical UV-C engineering solutions to suit your asset and user requirements comprising better ventilation air flows, distribution, filtration and, crucially, carefully designed and specified germicidal UV-C filaments installed into the air ducts, just past the coils & filters; and/or UV-C Upper Room Emitters; all of which can run non-invasively 24/7 with people safely present, while safety locked direct UV-C lamp emitters can be used for areas of particular surface cleaning risk eg toilets. Most hospitality venues can be made highly covid-assured with high levels of “air-security” against the virus very economically.

As professional engineers, scientists and medics we know intimately how to target the infection risks and design for you a bespoke solution by combining established and proven Engineering and Health Technologies for any interior environment to take Covid-security to a new level.

The above infection intervention solutions are not just cleaning the air and surfaces but disinfecting them to better than 99.99% efficacy.

We are listed on the British Government’s Coronavirus (Covid-19) response group of Key Suppliers compiled by the Crown Commercial Service under the Medical Services Category (Catalogue Number:20200506-134848-1A770B / Medical Services)

Museums, galleries and libraries

Museums, galleries and libraries contain vast quantities of valuable artefacts, books and materials where microorganisms can live and grow due to the minerals found in the paper and other materials. Over 234 species of microbes have been found on the books in libraries and museums. Any fabrics such as the carpet in a library have the ability to store microbes and they especially promote the growth of fungi. This is a major issue for the area as foot traffic will release the microbes from the carpet and make them airborne.

Even without accounting for COVID-19, there is a strong case for the installation of air and surface disinfection systems to prevent pathogens contaminating these environments.

Upper room UV-C systems, for instance, would be key for places such as entrances and hall ways where microorganisms can be brought inside by visitors.

With the additional microbial hazard, COVID-19, there is even greater benefit in the installation of air and surface disinfection systems.

Although the government guidance helps to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission, much more can be done to make museums, galleries and libraries safe. Indeed, some types of interior spaces may actually accelerate infection because of their ventilation arrangements irrespective of following Covid-Secure Guidelines to the letter, e.g. common HVAC systems for heating and cooling: recirculated air/ceiling cassette systems or low level heating or floor grill systems; inner room configurations etc. Each area needs a different risk assessment and intervention to reduce infection to guests, staff and visitors.

We are able to assess your building configuration, engineering infrastructure, occupancy use and risks. We then will model and engineer a bespoke and probably blended photo-medical UV-C engineering solutions to suit your asset and user requirements comprising better ventilation air flows, distribution, filtration and, crucially, carefully designed and specified germicidal UV-C filaments installed into the air ducts, just past the coils & filters; and/or UV-C Upper Room Emitters; all of which can run 24/7 with people safely present going about their business; and safety locked direct UV-C lamp emitters for areas of particular surface cleaning risk eg toilets. Most venues can be made highly covid-assured with high levels of “air-security” against the virus very economically.

The above infection intervention solutions are not just cleaning the air and surfaces but disinfecting them to better than 99.99% efficacy which provides a “game-changing” solution to help protect people to the highest level practicably available, when added into good management practices but also protecting your valuable artworks, artefacts and contents from fungal spores and microbial degradation.

We are listed on the British Government’s Coronavirus (Covid-19) response group of Key Suppliers compiled by the Crown Commercial Service under the Medical Services Category (Catalogue Number:20200506-134848-1A770B / Medical Services)

Retail & Shopping Centres

Retail units and shopping centres represent a significant risk of viral transmission, with numbers of people passing through, lingering in indoor environments, handling goods and objects and with staff members working around them.

While much can be done to reduce the risk of viral transmission by following the government’s guidance, additional steps can significantly reduce the risk further, protecting staff and customers from infection. Aside from physical configuration issues, the “air-security” has to be priority given the nature of the hazard.

Indeed, some types of interior spaces may actually accelerate infection because of their ventilation arrangements irrespective of following Covid-Secure Guidelines to the letter, e.g. recirculated air/ceiling cassette systems or low level heating or floor grill systems.

We are able to assess your building configuration, engineering infrastructure, occupancy use and risks. We then will model and engineer a bespoke and probably blended photo-medical UV-C engineering solutions to suit your asset and user requirements comprising better ventilation air flows, distribution, filtration and, crucially, carefully designed and specified germicidal UV-C filaments installed into the air ducts, just past the coils & filters; and/or UV-C Upper Room Emitters; all of which can run 24/7 with people safely present going about their business; and safety locked direct UV-C lamp emitters for areas of particular surface cleaning risk eg toilets (UV devices on timers/movement sensors/contacts/interlocks because direct emitters should not be deployed in occupied spaces).

The above infection intervention solutions are not just cleaning the air and surfaces but disinfecting them to better than 99.99% efficacy.

We are listed on the British Government’s Coronavirus (Covid-19) response group of Key Suppliers compiled by the Crown Commercial Service under the Medical Services Category (Catalogue Number:20200506-134848-1A770B / Medical Services)

Residential

People spend most of their lives at home but households can the source of most illness due to the transmission of viruses between family members or occupants.

When microorganisms are brought into the home they are allowed to settle on clothing and other fabrics in the house. When they become airborne through, for example being exhaled in a person’s breathe or disturbed after having settled on a surface, some microorganisms, including COVID-19, are able to stay in the air for several hours if there is no effective air redistribution and disinfection system in place.

Older homes struggle with the concentration of microbes especially as they only have natural ventilation systems which are ineffective at disrupting the airflow in buildings. Old homes also have separate heating and cooling systems in place which are only used intermittently. This leads to a greater concentration of microbes within the home. Our technologies, when installed in older homes will disrupt the stagnant air and will start to sterilise and then redistribute disinfected air in the home.

Newer homes often have air distribution systems built into them when they were built but these systems have limited air filtration installed in the system. This leads to a large number of microbes remaining airborne but being transmitted from one area to another. Our technologies, when applied with a filtering system, are able to remove nearly all microbes from the air as they comes through the air distribution system. Our technology can also disinfect or even, sterilise key components of the air distribution systems meaning that they do not harbour any harmful microbes.

In homes, there are many places that microbes are able to settle; one key place that microbes settle are fabrics around the house from bed sheets to carpets our surface disinfection systems will be able to kill pathogens on any surface in sight within a matter of minutes meaning that the homes surfaces can be sterilised reducing the risk of them contracting an illness.

Apartments and shared accommodation

Apartment type buildings vary can vary massively in terms of their size and occupancy and many other factors such as their ventilation systems. Many apartments have their own individual air distribution systems. Apartments have high concentrations of microbes due to more people coming through hallways and common areas and so bringing potentially harmful microbes into the apartment.

Each apartment needs to have its own air distribution and disinfection technology in place in order to stop the transmission of harmful microbes around the building as this could happen very quickly as lots of people use the same air and surfaces eg doors in the building to get around. Also, by keeping apartments disinfected it further reduces the risk of transmitting the virus at the persons place of work.

Despite the Government Covid-Secure Guidance and a 2 metre Covid-secure separation configuration for occupants, residential properties were never designed to deal with a highly contagious viral hazard.

Indeed, some types of interior spaces may actually accelerate infection because of their ventilation arrangements irrespective of following Covid-Secure Guidelines to the letter, e.g. common HVAC systems for heating and cooling: recirculated air/ceiling cassette systems or low level heating or floor grill systems; inner room configurations etc. Each area needs a different risk assessment and intervention to reduce infection residents, staff and visitors.

The Government stance is stay at home. If the air in your apartment or shared accommodation is common to you and others, then this may actually be increasing your risk of infection unless engineering intervention is undertaken to improve your air security.

We are able to assess your building configuration, engineering infrastructure, occupancy use and risks. We then will model and engineer a bespoke and probably blended photo-medical UV-C engineering solutions to suit your asset and user requirements comprising better ventilation air flows, distribution, filtration and, crucially, carefully designed and specified germicidal UV-C filaments installed into the air ducts, just past the coils & filters; and/or UV-C Upper Room Emitters; all of which can run 24/7 with people safely present going about their business; and safety locked direct UV-C lamp emitters for areas of particular surface cleaning risk eg toilets (UV devices on timers/movement sensors/contacts/interlocks because direct emitters should not be deployed in occupied spaces). Most properties can be made highly Covid-secure with high levels of “air-security” against the virus very economically.

The above infection intervention solutions are not just cleaning the air and surfaces but disinfecting them to better than 99.99% efficacy.

We are listed on the British Government’s Coronavirus (Covid-19) response group of Key Suppliers compiled by the Crown Commercial Service under the Medical Services Category (Catalogue Number:20200506-134848-1A770B / Medical Services)