HumiTEC Corporation helps schools, cafeterias and restaurants with over 6000 service runs annually.
Making an Impact
As parents and advocates for the proper nutrition and health of children around the world, the many symptoms of high humidity such as mold, mildew, excessive allergens and improper food safety are issues that are centrally important to us.
When the air contains too much moisture, property and resources are damaged over time at an accelerated rate. Library books and media center equipment degrade prematurely and need to be replaced sooner. Improper moisture levels in food storage areas lead to increased spoilage and exorbitant amounts of waste are created through decay and advancing food molds.
Additionally, dust and mold spores thrive and go on to create sickness and contribute to higher absenteeism in students and staff with allergies or asthma suffering the consequences. Let us show you how proper air feels and how the lives and foods of the people within it will be improved.
Simple solutions to solve excess humidity in all areas of schools are available from HumiTEC
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Talk to us about:
- Improving Food Safety
- Saving Money in your Child Nutrition Program
- Reducing Energy Usage of Refrigeration and Conditioning Systems
- Providing Safer and more Comfortable Kitchen and Cafeterias
- Reducing HACCP Burdens
- Lowering Maintenance Costs
Contributing to Better Nutrition
A study by Texas Tech University found that when the humidity is lower in a school cafeteria, the children will eat more. The humidity factor in this study proved to be more important than either noise, or temperature. The ProTEC humidity management service helps create a better indoor environment by promoting better health through the reduced harmful effects of excess moisture in an internal airspace, while helping to creating an anti-mold & mildew environment.
Meeting the Standards
Because of our concern for the health of children, we have the USDA’s Child Nutrition Program at the forefront of our school operational standards when servicing schools and additionally provide much needed support to Child Nutrition Associations in the United States and abroad.
Humidity within the classroom directly impacts students. Nine-percent lower average absenteeism rates for schools that control humidity indoors have been confirmed in scientific studies led by prominent institutions. Schools provided with humidity control systems reported to have experienced far better indoor comfort and air quality over time, as an effect of properly controlling the air’s moisture molecule content — a vehicle for transporting microbial activity.
Illness, allergies, microbial activity and perceived air quality impact the learning process and absenteeism in the form of humidity, and should therefore be carefully controlled.
Reducing Hidden Health Concerns
The effects of excess moisture in the air can often go unnoticed, as many times they are hidden behind walls, panels, coverings and other immovable objects. These effects can be as simple as forming condensation, or as dangerous as molds and mildew. In either case, the effect on the health of anyone that regularly occupies the space can be very measurable over time. Some symptoms look like simple allergies, while others can resemble bacterial infections in the human respiratory system — the source of which is traditionally not very obvious.
Only by being proactive and properly controlling indoor humidity levels, can we combat the ill effects of long-term excess moisture problems. In the case of commercial kitchens and cafeterias, dangers are even more compounded when considering the facilitie’s walk-in coolers / freezers. Even the most seemingly trivial process of opening and closing the door, can cause excess condensation; which leads to premature food rot, and the creation on an ideal environment for bacteria growth.
Lowering Potential Property Damage
Prolonged excess humidity levels can cause building materials and objects to degrade and decay prematurely over time. In the case of libraries, books and sensitive media center equipment often suffer the effects of uncontrolled high humidity. Books are notorious for sustaining “water,” damage because while they may not be exposed to water directly, excess airborne water vapor finds its way to the pages and begins to warp, break down the paper and begin mold growth.
We have developed ProTEC products and services to specifically target these damaging effects and their causes. The minerals and their properties in our ProTEC panels are blended with each application in mind while our humidity management techniques and products are proven valid and effective by thousands of schools, restaurants and other prominently established institutions.
HumiTEC has a simple, cost-effective solution to controlling high humidity in all areas of your school. Instead of wasting money unnecessarily, let us show you all the benefits and what managing the excess moisture in your air can do for you.
During the summer months, school facilities are typically un-occupied and experience humidity content at extreme levels. Indoor humidity levels exceeding 80% have been observed by some school systems.
Avoiding health problems is a primary concern and many school systems have found the need to operate HVAC systems all year to create a better indoor environment. Unfortunately, this leads to increased yearly energy costs. In addition to cost increases, continuous use of the air system causes pre-mature wear and tear, further increasing expenses.
Indoor air cooling systems must rid the air of moisture before they can begin to cool. As an additional consequence of damp moisture filled air, climate control systems are forced to work harder for longer and create additional costs through decreased efficiency and needlessly wasted energy.
Raising the air temperature in a school classroom by only two degrees can reduce the cost of running the air system by as much as twenty-two percent. When this practice is combined with ProTEC managed indoor air service, occupant comfort is reached at higher temperatures allowing everyone to feel better, system energy requirements and maintenance costs to be saved, and all while reducing the chances of germs spreading.