Eye-opening numbers about the money that could be saved if IAQ is improved

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The following information is from a Wire Service Canada article posted today.

" Fisk from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California

established a baseline for quantifying benefits from improved IAQ and

demonstrated the economic impacts of increased productivity. Findings

are showing that improvement in IAQ can: Reduce SBS symptoms by 20 to

50 percent, with estimated savings of $10 to $100 billion; Reduce

asthma by 8 to 25 percent, with estimated savings of $1 to $4 billion;

Reduce other respiratory illnesses by 23 to 76 percent, with estimated

savings of $6 to $14 billion; Improve office worker productivity by 0.5

to 5 percent, with estimated savings of $20 to $200 billion. "

http://www.wireservice.ca/index.php?name=News & file=article & sid=2095