People & Behavior
- Third-Party Re-Entry Programs – The WELL Health-Safety Rating provides confidence the building/space is putting health first. A seal with a QR code for occupants and visitors to learn more is placed on each entry door for communication. Edifice can help you get the seal and re-enter with confidence.
- Training Programs – Health Parameters, Daily Employee Health Screening Protocol, Effective & Efficient Cleaning + Disinfection, Mask Don/Doff and Disinfection procedures.
- Communication & Behavior Change – Your building occupants are your organization’s biggest asset and competitive advantage….taking advantage of effective communications strategies to let them know and understand your re-entry strategies and looping their feedback into your planning will significantly increase your re-occupancy success.
SARS-CoV-2 Surface & Air Testing
- Artemis on Point – Virus Detection Service
- SARS-CoV-2 virus presence/absence test & viral load. Note: does not determine infectious vs. inactivated virus.
- Clearance after large case counts (all building types), quantifying potentially infectious viral loads (especially health care – e.g. congregate care wings and individual rooms), ensuring engineering controls & environmental services are effective, or clearance for returning COVID wards to normal care levels. Available for all building types.
- Surface testing is also available that can aid in clearance testing. Used in combination with biological indicators showing a 3-5 Log reduction through proper cleaning & disinfection.
Building Health Assessment – Buildings & Occupants
- Cleaning & Sanitation Testing & Review
- Full Cleaning Program Review or Development
- Edifice Rx can ensure your cleaning program is healthy, safe, and the most effective possible by incorporating the safest & best products, techniques from healthcare, and innovation.
- Meet or exceed compliance with CDC, state, local, and health department requirements.
- Cleaning product inventory + review
- Cleaning equipment inventory + review & condition/proper maintenance verification
- Recommendations for healthiest, most sustainable, and effective cleaners, disinfectants, and wipes.
- Cleaning crew observation & efficiency testing using a UV or IR tracer or real-time organic material detection for training purposes.
- Pro-Active Precautionary Cleaning efficiency testing – no suspect cases
- Disinfection efficacy verification testing utilizing a biological indicator.
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae (yeast) will be applied to high touch surfaces to demonstrate a 3-5 log reduction of pathogens = successful cleaning and disinfection.
- Post-Decon – suspect cases – microbial testing of high touch and other surfaces. SARS-CoV-2 environmental testing available for high case counts
Remedial contractor oversight by industrial hygiene staff.
- Full Cleaning Program Review or Development
- HVAC Hygiene Inspection and Evaluation – post low/no occupancy and prior to re-entry – EPA IBEAM, HVAC hygiene testing (fungi & bacteria) and operations eval, air filtration and disinfection technology review and recommendations for best product technology and validation testing.
- Legionella Testing and Management – post-dormant occupancy period – potable and non-potable water (cooling towers).
- ProActive IEQ Real-time Readings – quick check or 24/7 data-logging and analysis
- Post-Construction/Pre-Occupancy EQ Testing & Management – post fit-out or decon
Building Health Innovations
- 360 VR – Virtual Reality Walk-through Tour of interior space
- Resource for Re-Entry Partners, Building Contractors, and other experts to collaborate and provide recommendations on re-entry, cleaning and disinfection, or biophilic integration projects.
- Senior certified industrial hygienists and cleaning professionals can be on-site virtually to provide oversight on cleaning/disinfection and remediation projects.
- Humidity for Health
- 50% Relative Humidity is the sweet spot for minimizing SARS-CoV-2 viability to <1%!
- A significant and often unrecognized opportunity to add humidification to buildings exists in climate zones 3-8. For New York – Kennedy International Airport (see graphs below) & mid-Atlantic this opportunity exists from Sept. – early June.
- ALL buildings can benefit from humidification and de-humidification maintaining relative humidity between 40-60% for health, optimal functioning, and low infectivity.
- Edifice Rx provides building envelope evaluation, consulting, and provides equipment solutions partnered with leading manufacturers.
- Additionally, Edifice Rx provides air quality monitoring as a service to trend various IAQ parameters including relative humidity. Sensors can be placed in wall cavities and attics to monitor relative humidity at critical building envelope surfaces. Occupants can provide IAQ feedback via companion app and IAQ sensor data can be integrated into building automation systems (BAS).
- Filtration Innovations – Identification and evaluation for HVAC and occupied zones (deployable portable units).
- Disinfection Innovations – Antimicrobial/Bactericidal Copper Disinfection Coating Technology – Identification of high touch surfaces and application of copper alloy for 24/7 disinfection, Safe 24/7 Light Disinfection, Efficient & Safe Chemistry Disinfectant Systems
- “Safe Workspace” – Simple Engineering Controls
- Research (Industrial hygiene, environmental psychology, MD) – data collection and analysis for building and occupant health parameters.
- Occupational Health Physician Guidance – Feel secure knowing you are guided by a solid medical advisor who can help you keep employees safe and healthy.
- Our “occ doc” can lead you through:
- technical medical document terminology,
- assessment of health risk,
- decision making and strategy development,
- employee benefit and disability review,
- review of on-site SARS-CoV-2 testing results
- ….part of the total team or as a separate occupational health consult.
- Our “occ doc” can lead you through:
Talk with us about:
- Indoor environmental conditions and occupant ratings and opinions app
- Communications Strategy Development
- Behavior Change Strategy ID and Implementation
- Covid-19 Related Signage Strategy & Signage Development
- Organizational and Environmental Psychology Guidance
- Pre- and Post- Occupancy Evaluations
……find yourself ahead of the curve!
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