Research shows air filters in classrooms improves overall ventilation and air quality
Mark Hernandez's air quality research is being highlight by Denver 9 News.
The work which initially focused on reducing the spread of COVID-19 in Denver Schools during pandemic is now expanding beyond concerns of just infectious diseases and helping to improve air quality in schools across the state.
Hernandez is a professor in the Environmental Engineering Program and air quality expert.
"We now have data from ventilation performance for buildings all over the state. The good news was, we found out a lot of our buildings and classrooms are high performing. They have really good air quality and they really didn鈥檛 need the air cleaners," Dr. Hernandez said. "Others are less performing and when we put those in, we found out they helped ventilation systems do their job."