Brendan Burgess
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I'm not sure that good ventilation is more important but I think it is equally important.
In Ireland, a drop in cases coincided with warmer temperatures when activity moved outside and buildings were ventilated freely.
Excellent process Marion. I know there are colder times immediately ahead. If you are looking for suggestions I reckon reminding the students:-What is good ventilation?
I open bottom windows and top windows and leave the door open in the rooms where I work. I do not allow them to be closed. The building is airtight, but with no mechanical ventilation. Students already complaining and constantly closing windows. They are immediately requested to open them again. I am not sure how this will work out when it gets really cold! I have advised coats gloves hats and thermals!
Marion
In the context of Covid, or just recommended best practice, it's 20L per second per person in the room. If you are in a classroom with 19 students (I use 19 so that including you it is 20 in total as I'm not much good at the maths) that's 24,000 litres of air per minute (20L x 20 people x 60 seconds).What is good ventilation?
Many years ago I worked with a woman who was always "cold". We kept a nice even temperature in our office with good ventilation. When one of us would go on our lunch she would put up the heating to it's highest temperature. When we returned to the office it was like a sauna. I remember just after lunch I was having a mortgage interview with a couple in these sauna like conditions. She was pregnant. During the interview she felt faint and we had to terminate the interview. I had a chat with the staff member about this and the need to have a normal temperature in the office. In later years this staff member made a bullying complaint against her manager (not me) and among her list of bullying grievances was that she was expected to work in cold conditions.There you had a situation where one member of staff did not seem aware of the need for proper air circulation and the other staff member did have an awareness.
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