• Indoor Air Quality Management

Founded in 2015, the name Nirvana Being has become synonymous with sustainable, scientific, and responsible clean air solutions. Our company name comes from Buddhism, where Nirvana Being means a state of enlightenment or elevated consciousness; about sustainability and our breath.

• India has 13 of the top 20 worst air quality Cities of the World out of a survey of 1600 Cities by the World Health Organization. Frankly, in my opinion, 20 out of the top 20 are in India, the rest just haven’t been surveyed yet.
• We also know that indoor air quality is typically 5-10 times worse than outdoor air.
• We know that if you are breathing outdoor air, you are smoking an average of 20 cigarettes daily, just by breathing.
• Breathing air rich in PM2.5 affects our health and performance and reduces our lifespan.

1. Well, if we already know all of this then IAQ is not a ‘nice to have,’ but really more a ‘compliance’ issue to meet occupational standards of safety and health. I am not a proponent of portable units (air purifiers) in the workplace, especially in offices with a high density of workers per square foot. Here are the reasons: You allow polluted air in and then are scrambling to clean the air with portables, after the fact.
2. For the portables to be successful you need a fairly sealed environment.
3. While you filter the air for PM2.5 and Volatile Organic Compounds(VOCs), the Carbon Dioxide levels will start to rise with all the workers breathing in close proximity in a sealed environment. CO2 is also a pollutant and will lower performance and make you lethargic and sleepy.

The optimal solution for businesses (offices, gyms, hotels, hospitals, restaurants, cinemas, etc) is to retrofit their existing HVAC systems (AHUs & TFAs) with Electronic Air Cleaners(EAC) that are MERV 14 rated, or better – we call this Central Air Purification. Combine this with real-time monitoring, so you don’t take your eye off the ball. Benefits of Central Air Purification include the following:

1. You filter the air at the source, so no dirty air enters the premises. Your coils, ducts, and FCUs (if any), will not require frequent cleaning.
2. It is possible to create a slight positive pressure, so that each time the doors open, filter air goes out and no polluted air enters the building.
3. The HVAC systems are designed to introduce 10-30% outdoor air so that the CO2 levels are maintained.