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Service 1st Financial and HALO Water Systems Equip Residential Plumbing Contractors with Industry-Leading Home Comfort-as-a-Service Program

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BETHESDA, Md., Feb. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Service 1st Financial, LLC (“Service 1st”), a disruptive financial technology company serving the residential home services contracting industry, and HALO Water Systems (“HALO”), a leading provider of residential water filtration and purification technologies, announced today a business partnership.

HALO is the water filtration and purification brand most recommended by leading residential plumbing contractors. The company was founded to address water quality issues faced by many communities in the United States. Today, HALO offers a comprehensive lineup of innovative water filtration and purification products to meet customers’ needs, including its flagship HALO 5 system. 

The partnership will provide HALO contractors access to Service 1st’s Premier Program™, a worry-free service for homeowners to replace and upgrade their plumbing, heating, cooling, and back-up power systems for a low monthly payment, while eliminating the common pain points associated with owning, maintaining, and repairing such systems.

“What excites me about our partnership with HALO is the expansion of our portfolio of worry-free home comfort services. The Premier Program is the most comprehensive worry-free home comfort program serving the residential plumbing, HVAC, and electrical trades. We are fortunate to enter the water filtration and purification space with Glen Blavet and his talented team at HALO. We look forward to serving HALO contractors from coast-to-coast,” said Tom Towe, Vice President of Business Development at Service 1st.

“At HALO, we believe everyone deserves clean drinking water for their families.  In many areas, such water is not available without water filtration and purification systems, which often require a significant upfront investment. By offering worry-free, properly conditioned, and clean water as-a-service for a low monthly payment, our contractors can now reach an even larger segment of homeowners. Moreover, the Premier Program provides valuable benefits to participating contractors, including increased customer loyalty, profitable recurring revenue, and marketplace differentiation. These benefits to homeowner and contractors are what make me most proud of our partnership with Service 1st and its Premier Program,” stated Glen Blavet, Founder & CEO of HALO.

About Service 1st Financial
Based in Bethesda, MD, Service 1st Financial is a leading financial technology company serving the residential home services contracting industry. Through Service 1st’s network of authorized contractors, homeowners can rely on the Premier Program to cover all their home comfort plumbing, heating, cooling, indoor air quality, and backup power needs, including the latest energy-efficient equipment, annual maintenance, consumables replacements, no-charge covered repairs, and complete peace-of-mind, all for a low monthly payment.

For more information, please visit www.worryfreehomecomfort.com.

About HALO Water Systems

Based in Carlsbad, CA, HALO Water Systems is a manufacturing and training organization founded by a contractor for contractors. HALO’s mission is to provide state of the art products that deliver homeowners water quality that meets the standard of service plumbers are charged with – “to protect the health and safety of the nation.”  HALO serves both the residential and commercial water filtration and purification markets with products designed to serve homeowner, food service equipment, and various commercial water treatment needs. 

For more information, please visit www.halowater.com.

Media Contact:
Tom Towe
240.800.7568
[email protected] 

SOURCE Service 1st Financial, LLC

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Where things stand with renovations, expansions and repairs at XNA

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The Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport has been trying to step it up lately, with rebranding, new construction, and adding a slew of new direct flights over the past few years.

Details: XNA’s Operations Committee met Wednesday and gave updates on several of the airport’s projects:

  • Work on a new $2.1 million maintenance building started this month and is expected to be completed in May.
  • A taxiway renovation is set to start in March and be completed in December. Federal Aviation Administration grants will fund the $10 million project.
  • Gate projects, such as adding a gate and buying a passenger boarding bridge, are on deck for April through December. The cost is $5.2 million.
  • Indoor air quality improvements are expected to cost $745,000. They are set for April through August.

What’s next: XNA has other projects up its sleeve for this year, including:

  • Pavement maintenance. $1 million
  • Entrance monument signs. $400,000
  • Airfield pavement repairs. $300,000
  • Runway shoulder reseal. $$350,000
  • Electric vehicle charging stations. $78,000
  • Vestibule door replacement at the east and west entrances. $75,000
  • Adding Einstein’s Bagels inside the airport. $20,000
  • Traffic control signage. $20,000
  • New air traffic control tower. Cost estimates should come in in April.

Of note: The new skybridge that will connect the parking deck to the second floor of the terminal is on hold for now. It will be bid out in conjunction with the lobby renovation, which includes baggage claim improvements.

What to watch: The airport is also a step closer to purchasing land for future expansion.

  • The Operations Committee voted to recommend that the full board approve the purchase of 83 acres off of Northeast Pinalto Road, bordering existing airport property to the northwest, for $1.4 million.
  • The committee also gave its blessing to purchase about 21 acres that border existing airport property to the southwest. The exact price is TBD.

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Tulsa home service experts cite advanced tech as answer for maintaining good indoor air quality

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“Most people believe that all HVAC units function the same way, and that isn’t the case,” said Cody Dampf, service manager and comfort consultant at Innovative Air Pros. “Technology has evolved, and there are several options that provide additional benefits for homeowners. We keep an eye on the latest air quality solutions to stay in front of the everchanging industry. We invest in the latest technology to improve IAQ and increase savings for our customers.”

To improve a home’s defense against biological pollutants, UV germicidal lights and UV air sanitizers are an excellent and reliable choice for homeowners. Germicidal lights are designed to eliminate biological pollutants before they have a chance to enter a home by damaging the cell structure of the bacteria. These easy to install lights disinfect your home’s air to create a healthier indoor environment.

For an extra layer of IAQ protection, homeowners can also install air sanitizers. These can help sterilize air by removing up to 99.9% of harmful pathogens in a home. For those that suffer from chronic respiratory conditions, this can be helpful by creating a better breathing environment.

“While the work environment is returning to normal for many, there are still some people who have to work from home,” Dampf said. “These individuals are beginning to realize the air inside their home isn’t as comfortable as they thought. Because they are spending more time indoors, clean air has become an area of focus for homeowners. The germicidal lights and air sanitizers eliminate many of the harmful contaminants that cause air to feel uncomfortable.”

For an opportunity to improve air quality and create instant savings, the home air conditioner is the best place to start. Inverter technology is an innovation that many residents haven’t heard about but should consider for increased savings.

In air conditioners with inverter technology, the temperature is adjusted by changing motor speed without turning the motor on and off. This helps eliminate wasted operation and reduces the amount of energy used to help save money.

“At Innovative Air Pros, we embraced the technology revolution by offering advanced solutions that create a better overall experience for the homeowner,” Dampf said. “We know that our customers expect space age comfort, and we provide that by emphasizing solutions that others in the industry don’t provide.”

For more information on Innovative Air Pros or their products, visit https://innovativeairpros.com/.

About Innovative Air Pros
Open since 2016, Innovative Air Pros specializes in heating, cooling and indoor air quality services while serving the residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The team of expert technicians is dedicated to providing the highest quality services while installing, repairing and servicing the most energy-efficient state-of-the-art systems. With trained and certified pros, Innovative Air Pros will always recommend the best solutions for home HVAC needs. For more information, visit https://innovativeairpros.com/.

MEDIA CONTACT: 
Heather Ripley
Ripley PR
865-977-1973
[email protected]

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Houses & Homes: Cleaning tips from maven Melissa Maker, the cleaning expert and founder of Clean My Space | Houses Homes

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This month, Clorox is set to launch some new cleaning products: Disinfecting Mist Spray and Disinfecting Mopping Cloths. Melissa Maker, the expert behind Clean my Space, offered her best cleaning tips, common mistakes people make when cleaning, and a few do-it-yourself recipes for cleaning products at home.

What are some tips you can offer when it comes to cleaning your house?

Set a timer – this is the best way for me to get going on days when I don’t feel motivated. Sometimes, I’ll pick a podcast that’s say, 20 minutes, and do what I can during that time. Anything left undone can be finished at a later time. Oftentimes, I’ll end up pushing through until the whole task is done because I don’t want to have a job be 80% finished and have to carve out time to complete the rest.

Pair cleaning with something else – if you are waiting for your coffee to be made or your water to boil for tea, use that time to unload the dishwasher instead of doom scrolling. Find little ways to weave cleaning into your day. If you need to stretch your legs after a few video calls, do so by vacuuming your office floor (which is what I just did) or finding another quick 5-minute cleaning task that gets you to move your body.

Make sure you are using the right products and tools for the job. If you pick up a sponge that’s too abrasive and use it to clean stainless steel, you’ll scratch it. If you use a cleaning product with acid (like vinegar), you can etch your natural stone. Learn the finishes in your home and what they can tolerate, and select the products and tools you need accordingly. That way you get the job done efficiently, and you don’t ruin anything in the process.

What are some common mistakes people make when cleaning their homes?

Not getting things cleaned because you are unclear about your cleaning ‘style’: know thyself! Are you a marathon cleaner – someone who likes to spend half a day cleaning their home so they feel set for the week? Or, are you a piecemeal cleaner – someone who likes to do a room or task or two a day? If you are the former, don’t sweat the small stuff; leave everything until your big clean and just enjoy the rest of your week without worrying about cleaning. If you are the latter, you’ll need to be on top of your schedule and make sure you get a room or a couple of tasks done every day so that things don’t pile up. We get into trouble when we don’t clean according to our cleaning ‘style’, the cleaning piles up and never gets done or feels insurmountable when you finally decide to do it.

Understand how to properly disinfect surfaces and where disinfection is actually needed. Many people would use the terms ‘disinfect’ and ‘clean’ synonymously, but in fact they are two different things and serve different purposes. Cleaning is just that, it’s removing dirt, dust, debris, grease and grime from a surface. It helps a surface look better. Disinfecting takes cleaning a step further, and actually kills 99.9% of germs on that surface. I recommend disinfecting surfaces that are considered ‘points of contact’ such as door handles, light switch plates, levers, pulls, remote controls, etc. And to do that, clean the surface first, and next, apply a disinfectant. I like using Clorox Disinfecting Mist after I clean a surface, because it’s bleach-free, can be used on both hard and soft surfaces, and comes in an aerosol-free bottle, too, which I appreciate.

Cleaning among clutter: any time a room needs to be cleaned, don’t clean it before you remove the clutter. Otherwise, it becomes a very daunting job to move and replace and clean around a bunch of stuff that is out of place. The way I teach people to clean is to use my ‘3 wave system’. Wave 1 is tidying and organizing (this tackles this very problem), wave 2 is the actual cleaning and disinfecting, and wave 3 is when you empty garbage cans and clean the floors. By parsing it out into 3 tasks, you can get the job done efficiently and not have to clean around tons of piles and misplaced items.

What DIY substitutes can you offer?

My favorite all-purpose cleaner that I use to clean most of my surfaces with at home is 2 cups of water, 1/2 tsp dish soap and 5-10 drops of essential oils (the one you choose can be dictated by your mood or preference).

Glass cleaner – vinegar is an amazing glass cleaner, so I like to mix up a 50/50 solution of vinegar to water for glass and window cleaning. For grimy exterior windows, I use 3 L of hot water, 1 tbsp of dish soap and 1 L of vinegar in a big rectangular bucket. Then I use a double-sided squeegee (the kind professional window cleaners use) and go to town. Just don’t do it on a sunny day, and you’ll have stunning windows in no time. For sticky grime built up on interior windows and mirrors (like hairspray and air freshener remnants), consider using a bit of rubbing alcohol on a cotton pad to remove the build up.

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Vanguard Digital Printing Systems – A Durst Group Company Vanguard’s LED ink sets obtain GREENGUARD Gold Certification

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Lawrenceville, GA – Vanguard is pleased to announce that we have received the UL Greenguard Gold certification for our SVR5D, VK300D, and VKM600 UV LED inkjet ink sets.

Products that have achieved GREENGUARD Certification are scientifically proven to meet some of the world’s most rigorous third-party chemical emissions standards, helping to reduce indoor air pollution and the risk of chemical exposure.

Detailed information on the certification can be found here: https://www.ul.com/resources/ul-greenguard-certification-program 

By choosing our ink sets that are GREENGUARD certified, you are creating a healthier indoor environment for your office and reducing chemical exposure. GREENGUARD Certification Standards are among the most rigorous in the world, so you can be confident that these certified products live up to their claims.

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Covid-19 airborne particles can travel about 200 feet, says US study

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Small coronavirus respiratory particles can remain moist and airborne for a longer time and at greater distance than scientists have thought so far.

Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory estimates that droplets encased in mucus could remain moist for up to 30 minutes and travel up to about 200 feet.

“There are reports of people becoming infected with a coronavirus downwind of an infected person or in a room several minutes after an infected person has exited that room,” said Leonard Pease, the corresponding author of the study.

“The idea that enveloped virions may remain well hydrated and thus fully infective at substantial distances is consistent with real-world observations. Perhaps infectious respiratory droplets persist longer than we have realised,” Pease added.

The findings were published in the journal International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer.

The team analysed the mucus that coats the respiratory droplets that people spew from their lungs. Scientists know that mucus allows many viruses to travel further than they otherwise would, enabling them to journey from one person to another.

Conventional wisdom has been that very small, aerosolised droplets of just a few microns, like those produced in the lungs, dry out in air almost instantly, becoming harmless. But the team found that mucus changes the equation.

The team found that the mucus shell that surrounds respiratory droplets likely reduces the evaporation rate, increasing the time that viral particles within the droplets are kept moist.

Since enveloped viruses like SARS-CoV-2 have a fatty coating that must be kept moist for the virus to be infectious, the slower evaporation allows viral particles to be infectious longer.

“While there have been many factors proposed as variables in how Covid spreads,” said Pease, “mucus remains largely overlooked.”

The focus on mucus also helped the team, in a separate study published in the journal Indoor Air, to address how the virus moves in a multiroom office building.

In the study, Chemist Carolyn Burns created artificial, respiratory-like droplets to study how the particles moved from room to room.

The scientists found that both low and high levels of filtering were effective at reducing levels of respiratory droplets in all rooms.

The team also found that increasing ventilation rapidly reduced particle levels in the source room.

But particle levels in the other connected rooms jumped immediately; levels spiked 20 to 45 minutes later with vigorous air changes increasing the spike.

Ultimately, after the initial spike, levels of droplets in all the rooms gradually dropped after three hours with filtration and after five hours without it.

The scientists noted that increased air exchange for crowded spaces may be beneficial in certain situations, like large conferences or school assemblies, but in normal work and school conditions, it may actually increase transmission rates throughout all rooms of a building.

“If you’re in a downstream room and you’re not the source of the virus, you probably are not better off with more ventilation,” said Pease.

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Thousands of people have been without running water for four months. No one can say when the problem will be fixed

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Zwonaka Muswede, who has lived in Itireleng since 2018, walks 3km and uses a bucket and rope to get water from this makeshift well she discovered. Photos: Chris Gilili

  • More than 2,000 people living in Itireleng near Tshwane have been without tap water since October last year.
  • Water trucks have been scarce and people have been desperately sourcing water wherever they can find it.
  • A municipal official promised that relief would come with water trucks and jojo tanks on Friday.

Residents of Itireleng village have been without water since October, when their communal standpipes ran dry. This village of 2,000 people is in Madibeng municipality in North West Province, close to the Gauteng border.

Villagers get water from streams and have to walk long distances.

Isaac Ralhogo says “life has been hell”. He has over 30 pigs who need a lot of water. “I have to clean their compound and pour water on them every now and then,” he explains. He has to drive to get water from an underground source.

“The councillor has told us that they are planning to bring water trucks and Jojo tanks for relief, but this is not a solution. We need water from taps,” he says.

Zwonaka Muswede walks 3km with a wheelbarrow to a makeshift well. She uses a bucket with a rope. She boils the murky water because she doesn’t think it is safe to drink.

Mahlodi Mokgosi, a resident, says a water truck was last seen in November 2021. Mokgosi says water has been an ongoing challenge in Itireleng. The taps are communal and there aren’t enough of them.

News24 reported in August that the City of Tshwane threatened to restrict water supply to Madibeng because the local municipality owed it over R200 million.

Ward 10 Councillor Fenky Phaloane (ANC) appeared to confirm this, saying the problem was caused by water pressure being reduced by the City of Tshwane. He said talks have begun to transfer water infrastructure from Tshwane to Madibeng.

Fafi Mthombeni, an official responsible for water services at Madibeng, said, “I know that water tankers were sent to Itireleng in the past weeks, so I am not sure why certain areas are not covered by the tankers but I will follow up.”

Mthombeni promised that 5,000 litres of water would be delivered to Itereleng on Friday (but this amounts to just 2.5 litres per person). Mthombeni said rain tanks would also be installed at some households but was not sure when water would be restored to the taps.

Madibeng municipal spokesperson Tumelo Tshabalala did not respond to our queries.

There has been no tap water in Itireleng under the Madibeng Local Municipality since October 2021. People source water wherever they can find it.

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Eugene Deserves Quiet – Eugene Weekly

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I agree with Christopher Logan’s letter (“Time to Zip It, Zip-O,” 2/3) regarding the noise in his neighborhood. I also have contacted the city regarding intolerable noise: deafening train horns, leaf blowers that make it impossible to have a conversation on my own property and force more particulate matter into my lungs, to no avail except that work on the quiet zone should start sometime.

Add to that the noise of all the unmuffled racing cars that seem to not be noticed by Eugene police; we allow them to feel free to intimidate our citizens, plus the airplanes whose flight patterns go right over our city. None of these things seem to matter to the city government. We deserve clean air, and peace and quiet. Things are building up more and more. We tolerate and/or go crazy. Our children will not have a memory of what a peaceful city feels like. This is all they know.

Jean Denis

Eugene

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Why the Beijing Olympics Are So Hard to Watch

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Imagine a dystopian Olympics. Maybe it would have athletes skiing on fake snow down parched slopes. Robots mixing cocktails, making dumplings and disinfecting the air. Events staffed by workers not in sportswear but hazmat suits. Instead of a stadium you are eager to sit in, a bubble you cannot leave.

They’re being staged in a country whose persecution of the Uyghurs has been called a genocide by the Biden administration, and yet China had a smiling Uyghur athlete light the Olympic torch as Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin looked on, two autocrats seated together in the V.I.P. box.

Here we are: the world’s largest athletic festival, recast for 2022.

It’s no wonder the broadcaster NBCUniversal is reported to have slashed its ratings expectations for these Games compared with four years ago. The Winter Olympics have always been less popular than the Summer, and this year’s opening ceremony’s ratings were the lowest in history.

There is a lot of speculation as to why we’re not watching. But as a longtime sucker for the no-limits narratives concocted for us by the Olympics and its marketers, I’ll say I’m just not feeling it this year. The Games’ core appeal has always been inspiration, the pursuit of impossible dreams. Two years into a pandemic, when so many of our dreams have been shelved, these Games just aren’t delivering that kind of inspiration. Instead of showcasing the best of what humanity can do, this Olympics seem to reflect what we can’t.

With their spectacle of extreme athletics held against a backdrop of climate emergency, public health disaster, political brinkmanship and rampant corruption, the Games reek of societal decline. When anxiety and misery are all around us, and many of us have lost our faith in institutions’ ability or will to solve these problems, state- and corporate-sponsored inspiration doesn’t land the way it used to.

The athletes and their feats seem eclipsed by crises no icebound pirouette or gargantuan leap off a ski jump can rival. And these Games have already seen their share of athletic-related outrages, with the news that the Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, just 15 years old, had tested positive before the Games for a banned drug, a revelation that only fuels the Olympics’ image crisis.

I’ve typically loved the Winter Games for the triumph. Nordic skiers who become national heroes after tying for first on a broken pole. Jamaican bobsledders and the Miracle on Ice, when the youthful US hockey team came out of nowhere in 1980 to defeat the best teams in the world. Maybe the euphoria around those moments was a mirage too, distracting us from real problems. It was thrilling anyway. It also feels over.

The athletic moments that capture our collective attention these days are quite different. Many of them reflect a growing acceptance of limitations in our lives. We celebrated Simone Biles last summer in Tokyo for prioritizing her safety and bowing out, and shared the relief on Friday of the gold medal favorite Mikaela Shiffrin for finishing in ninth place after struggling on her first two forays on the ski slopes.

And there was applause for the 35-year-old snowboarding champion Shaun White, who was trying for a fourth and final gold but ended up expressing his joy at being usurped by talented younger riders: “They’ve been on my heels every step of the way, and to see them finally surpass me is, I think deep down, what I always wanted,” he told reporters through laughter and tears.

All this is also inspiration — but a new kind, befitting this strange moment. It’s not the familiar underdog success story, which flips every loss into a story of ultimate gain, or turns every setback into a narrative of empowerment and success. Athletes are now inspiring us by showing us their humanity, by no longer forcing themselves to endure the untenable. The stories we’ll remember from the past two Olympics will not be about shattering limits, but accepting them.

Of course, there are still old-fashioned victories in Beijing, and those are worth celebrating too. There’s Eileen Gu, a teenage fashion model from San Francisco who is winning golds and capturing the imagination of her adopted country, China, before she starts at Stanford this year. The figure skater Nathan Chen and snowboarder Chloe Kim followed their dreams to win gold for America. A Dutch speedskater became the first person to win an individual gold medal at five Olympics — and at 35, the oldest gold medalist in her sport ever.

I like watching the athletes too much to skip the Olympics. Ice dancing is gorgeous, ski jumpers are wild. And I will happily take a few minutes out of an evening over the next few weeks to watch the curlers furiously sweep a slab of stone down a narrow lane of ice.

But it’s still hard not to feel ambivalent about it all. Maybe that’s not fair to the athletes, who have worked their whole lives to compete in the Olympics. They didn’t choose this moment, this set of overlapping crises, or the host country — just as most of us haven’t chosen the problematic legacies we’ve inherited. We’re all just muddling through.

And so the Games go on, in largely vacant stadiums where the few locals who manage to attend are prohibited from cheering, to avoid exhaling contagious particles. It makes me think of the request of a Japanese amusement park to guests at the beginning of the pandemic, which would be a worthy slogan for Beijing 2022: “Scream inside your hearts.”

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Rapid Spread Of COVID-19 In Schools Shows Need For Urgent Protective Measures

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Thursday, 17 February 2022, 4:12 pm
Press Release: Big Blue

With
COVID-19 impacting at least 250 schools and early childhood
centres, the Ministry of Education needs to take urgent
action to protect children and teachers, says indoor air
safety technology expert Big Blue.

“Now, more than
ever, the Ministry of Education should be installing world
leading air safety technology to ensure classrooms are as
safe as possible for our children,” said Big Blue Managing
Director Paul Wiggans.

“These numbers are alarming
and are bound to increase rapidly from here if today’s
record overall case numbers are anything to go
by.

“The more children who have to go home to
isolate, the more parents will have to juggle family and
work – that has real social and economic impacts in our
communities and workplaces.

“In our view, the
Ministry’s response to date to supply only 500 air filter
units to some schools in March and more apparently arriving
in June this year just isn’t good enough. These units
aren’t even that effective when it comes to combating
airborne viral transmission – CDC infection control
guidelines show that even at eight air changes an hour it
would take an air filter 35 minutes to reduce contaminants
by 99%. ActivePure Technology is different because it
operates in the air around you so is not reliant on air
filtration.

“It’s clear the Ministry needs to take
urgent action, reset and invest now to protect our kids,
teachers, and wider communities. We had raised this with the
Ministry back in July last year. It’s clear we need to do
a far better job when the technology is readily
available.”

Big Blue is the exclusive New Zealand
supplier of ActivePure indoor air safety units, technology
originally developed by NASA and proven to actively combat
pathogens in the air and on surfaces, including specific
testing against the virus that causes COVID-19, rather than
relying on passive air filtration, providing greater
protection in indoor spaces.

“We could supply 1,500
ActivePure units today to the Ministry of Education if we
got the green light, and enough for every classroom in New
Zealand by mid-April.

“These are already used widely
in New Zealand by other government agencies, public and
private hospitals, and a wide range of businesses and
organisations. Right now ActivePure units are protecting one
of our Super Rugby teams in Queenstown and our Olympic
athletes in Beijing.

“If it’s good enough for
professional athletes, hospitals, offices, hotels, and many
others, why are we not using this proven world leading
technology to protect our most precious asset, our
tamariki?

“New Zealand children deserve better, and
we stand ready to support the Ministry of Education to give
our schools and our children the protection they need at
this critical time,” said Paul
Wiggans.

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