Suffering from headache, eye and throat irritation, fatigue, nausea, respiratory effects or allergic reactions?
All these symptoms can be caused by poor air quality and the related pollutants!
Measurement and analysis are very important to prevent health problems in buildings and their surroundings. Indoor air quality monitoring the best way to gain necessary information.
Understanding and controlling common indoor pollutants (PM – Particulate Matter, CO2, VOC – Volatile Organic Compounds, HCHO – Formaldehyde, NO2, O3, …) can help to reduce your risk of indoor health concerns.
Health effects from indoor air pollutants may be experienced immediately during exposure or shortly after. In few cases, effects of air pollution show symptoms years later, e.g. COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease).
Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) monitoring is a popular service with Aristoteles Consulting clients who recognize the importance of staff well-being to business success.
Read more about Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and how we can help to improve it.
Experts stress the importance of comfortable working and living environments, but air quality is often ignored. Indoor pollutants affect customers and employees at work, as well as adults and children in their homes. Poor air quality is linked to higher sick day rates and reduced productivity.
Some health effects may occur shortly after a single exposure or repeated exposure to a pollutant.
These include irritation of the eyes, nose and throat, headache, dizziness and fatigue. Such immediate effects are usually short-lived and treatable. These symptoms appear to be linked to time spent in a building, though no specific illness or cause can be identified. They are often summarised as sick building syndrome (SBS).
Sometimes the treatment simply eliminates the exposure of the individual to the source of the pollution, if it can be identified. Soon after exposure to some indoor air pollutants, symptoms of certain diseases such as asthma may appear.
Poor indoor air quality has effects on:
The most common effects of poor Indoor Air Quality are: irritation of the eyes, nose and throat, headache, dizziness and fatigue, coughing, allergies…
“The total external health-related costs to society from air pollution are estimated to be in the range of €330-940 billion per year.” Source: European Commission – November 2017
Although it is not (yet) scientifically proven, by our experience we believe that working in healthy work places will improve your chances for happiness.
Being less exposed to indoor air pollution, it will increase your productivity, satisfaction & potentially creating a sense of sustainable well-being.
Research has shown that poor indoor air quality in buildings can decrease productivity in addition to causing visitors to express dissatisfaction.
Work performance may be improved up to 9% by providing superior indoor environmental quality (IEQ). The economic benefits of the performance improvements will often prevail the costs of providing better IEQ.
According to an Australian study, improving IAQ reduces sick leave rate by 39% and costs by 44%!
Estimations performed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory show, that benefits of an improved IEQ are substantial, including increased work performance, reduced Sick Building Syndrome symptoms and reduced absence.
The quality of the environment (in the Netherlands), and thus our quality of life, is affected by many different factors. These factors include air quality, (radioactive) radiation, radon, noise and (house) dust.
Aristotle Consulting is your advisor on healthy living and working.
Our research and services focus on the areas of fine dust (particulate matter) measurement, Residential Indoor Air Quality Testing, Mould Inspection and Testing, Carbon dioxide Measurement, VOC Measurement, Formaldehyde Measurement, radon monitoring, (radioactive) radiation and house dust research.
Aristoteles Consulting was founded in the Amsterdam area by a group of experienced, but still curious individuals. Our many years of experience in environmental and climate research, laboratory testing, geosciences, data modelling and commodity exploration allow us to take a multidisciplinary approach to solve your air quality concern.
We want to inform people and companies about the quality of the indoor air they breathe as it has a direct impact on their health, performance and behaviour.
We can assist with all aspects of Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and are specialists in offering custom-made consultancy and monitoring solutions in buildings.
In order to investigate Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and office air quality complaints, Aristoteles Consulting offers a combination of different tests that can be fitted to focus on the most likely environmental causes of these complaints to either prove or disprove them.
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We measure, analyse and recommend the best solution to your air quality problems.
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