5. MERV
Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value. A measurement scale to rate the effectiveness of air filters. The MERV scale goes from 1-16. The higher the MERV rating, the greater percentage of particles captured on each pass.
6. Sick Building Syndrome
Used to describe situations in which building occupants experience acute health and comfort effects that appear to be linked to time spent in a building, but no specific illness or cause can be identified.
7. Sick Home Syndrome
Used to describe situations in which occupants of a home experience acute health and comfort effects that appear to be linked to time spent in the home, but no specific illness or cause can be identified.
8. URV
UVGI Rating Values. The scale for rating UVGI air treatment systems based on the ultraviolet dosage they produce.
11. VOCs
Volatile Organic Compounds. Organic chemical compounds that have high enough vapor pressures under normal conditions to significantly vaporize and enter the atmosphere. Volatile organic compounds are numerous and varied. Although ubiquitous in nature and modern industrial society, they may also be harmful or toxic. VOCs, or subsets of the VOCs, are often regulated.
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