Indoor air quality (IAQ) is the air quality within and around buildings and structures. IAQ is known to affect the health, comfort and well-being of building occupants. Air Quality Monitoring to verify compliance with the environmental standards can only be carried out with the high-precision instrumental methods in accordance with reference, or equivalent methods. This also applies to research studies aimed to understand the short-term behavior of air contaminants.

The most widely adopted reference list of instruments is the one issued and constantly updated by the US Environmental Protection Agency (US-EPA).

It is important to note that: It is not only necessary to choose analyzers that are compliant with the relevant/US-EPA standard but also to operate the analyzer the same way. Simply ensuring an analyzer’s specifications are compliant with the standard is not sufficient. The US-EPA has issued many guidelines about operating air quality monitoring networks that must be strictly adopted.

APAQ Group portfolio includes a wide range of instruments approved by the US-EPA and can fully assist to ensure that the monitoring activity is performed strictly accordingly to these regulations.