Choosing the Right Indoor Air Quality Monitor for a Safe and Healthy Building
Nine months into the coronavirus pandemic and the struggle to get tenants, employees and customers to return has building owners scrambling for solutions. Good indoor air quality has become an important guideline for reopening, prompting the demand for products that can provide confidence about the health and safety of building occupants. Among them, indoor air […]
Indoor Air Quality Monitoring: An Essential Practice for Sustainable Buildings
Sustainability in buildings is more than just about energy efficiency and reducing carbon emissions. With numerous studies demonstrating how buildings have the potential for both positive and negative impacts on the health and productivity of people, truly sustainable buildings should be designed to improve the wellbeing of the people who work in them. Indoor air […]
Bursting the Carbon Dioxide Bubble: Why Monitoring CO2 Levels in Your Building is Critical
The conventional design of buildings as airtight spaces with minimal outdoor air exchange was primarily done to improve energy efficiency. Reduced ventilation can result in energy savings because outdoor and indoor air exchange is controlled thus having a lesser need to heat or cool buildings inside. Having less ventilation, though, can also lead to an […]
Future-Proof Your Business With Good Indoor Air Quality
There are two important lessons that the coronavirus pandemic has taught businesses: first, we really can’t predict the future no matter how much planning we do; and second, our current strategies and practices no longer work in the New Normal. Where people are driven to stay indoors and contagion fears grip countries, many businesses are […]
Fact or Fallacy: What Facility Managers Should Know to Ensure Good Indoor Air Quality
If you’re a facility manager, it can be easy to get overwhelmed and confused with the different types of information being shared about managing indoor air quality in buildings – especially these days when fear and uncertainty are making building occupants hesitant to return to the workplace or continue with their lease. A recent survey […]
uHoo Closes Oversubscribed Funding Round – Growth further Accelerated by COVID-19
Funding will be used to meet the large increase in demand for healthy building solutions, accelerate growth through increased hiring, and development of innovative new products and services. 15 September 2020, Singapore – Singapore-based leading global environmental health platform, uHoo has seen growing interest from investors with an oversubscribed financing round closed last month. The […]
uHoo launches in Switzerland, in partnership with Ricola and Swisscom, following successes in Asia and Europe
Zurich, December 5, 2017 – uHoo, has officially launched today in Switzerland. uHoo monitors the levels of harmful chemicals and toxins present in the air and provides data, alerts, insights, and recommendations via the uHoo mobile app or dashboard, accessible through any smartphone or laptop that’s connected to the internet.The device, as small as a coffee cup, is available for purchase at uHoo’s website and ships directly to Switzerland. uHoo has also partnered with home-grown Swiss brands, Ricola and Swisscom, to use the device in monitoring the quality of indoor air in select Ricola offices and rapidly obtain feedback from homeowners in Switzerland, respectively.