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Shopping Centers & Malls

Commit to limiting airborne pollution exposure with IAQ monitoring

Give the confidence shoppers want and increased productivity employers need through observing indoor air quality effectively. Healthier air means an improvement to employees’ well-being and a better customer experience overall.

The need for air quality monitoring within malls relates to the overall consumer experience

Shopping centers are the core of social gatherings where people go with family, friends, and even colleagues. Research has shown that mall traffic is beginning to ramp back up as stores continue to open up at full capacity. Air pollution is an issue which affects everyone on a daily basis, it is proven that building managers need to continue to monitor IAQ to be able to provide a healthy shopping experience for consumers and employees.
 

Maintaining a healthy indoor air quality (IAQ) is reliant on many different environments:

  • Temperature, airflow, ventilation, and source contaminants
  • Perfumes, air fresheners, and other smells such as food courts

The consumer, and even more so the employee, is the target to whatever air is accessible at the time. Customers and employees who suffer from fragrance sensitivities, poor indoor air quality can make them nauseous. While offering a fragrance-free shopping experience is far from realistic, monitoring your buildings IAQ is certainly a step in the right direction to detecting clean air.

Identifying the sources of poor indoor air quality (IAQ) can be done through continuous monitoring devices and understanding the building’s airflow patterns. Locating where the air enters the building and observing the air quality throughout can help managers locate the problems where contaminants may be entering their stores and common areas.

Shopping Center

Retail establishments often feature open doors, or doors that are being opened frequently due to consumers entering and exiting the building – these are focus areas in which outdoor contaminants permeate throughout the building. Air quality within malls and retail shopping center’s is affected from outside pollutants such as carbon dioxide from car exhaust due to high volume parking lots and cars moving at a slower speed.

Temperature and humidity levels within food courts, restaurants, dry clothing services, and home good stores (with many fragrance offerings) habitually cause higher carbon dioxide (CO2), total volatile organic compound (tVOC), and particulate matter (PM) levels due to many different pollutants in the air. Additionally, correlating to the levels of particulate matter (PM) indoor, the frequency of catching a common cold of the retail store employees is statistically high – this alone is a great indicator that monitoring your building’s IAQ is important to the health and well-being of personnel and consumers.