Caere Facility and Resource Management
Seven steps to clean air
Even a closed office room can have pollutants and contaminants which have to be treated, says Mohit Gupta, General Manager-Business Development, Caere Facility and Resource Management.
Just because we cannot see pollution, we cannot assume it does not exist. The air that we breathe has millions of microbes, dust and even allergens. A latest research by Gurgaon-based Dr Lal’s Pathlab discovered that three out of five people suffered from allergies in India due to pollution.
Secunderabad-based Caere Facility and Resource Management, which started with housekeeping services 10 years ago, showcased Pure Room air purifiers at the Clean India Show 2010. “We have now diversified into hygiene spaces,” says Mohit.
The electronic air-purifier clears air eight to 12 times in a day. It is a seven-step air-purifying system. In the first step, the air handling unit is cleaned and sanitized. Later, an enzymatic tablet is placed in the drip pan of the air-condition/air-handling unit to prevent algae and mould. “The enzymatic tablet has to be changed every six months. The service is provided for two years or till the contract ends. Besides, we also place a tea-tree oil canister in the outlet of the air-condition unit. Thus, the air is sanitized at the source itself.”
To maintain indoor air quality, the floor, carpet and upholstery have also to be cleaned on a regular basis. Before the system is installed, the room is deep-cleaned with a HEPA filter vacuum cleaner. Later, a bacterio-static mixture is sprayed in the room. The mixture is suitable for hard & soft surfaces and even carpets. “The mixture has the ability to rupture the bacteria/virus cell,” says Mohit.
In the next step, an ozone-generator is allowed to run in the room for two hours. After the ozone treatment, the air purifier is installed in the room. The air goes through a carbon filter, ziolite filter, the microbial mesh and the HEPA filter. So any particle that goes through the system is captured. Particles as small as 0.3microns, like swine-flu virus, get trapped in this filter. The air that comes out of the air purifier has zero particles.
US-based Pure Solutions, the patent holders of Pure Room, has been working in indoor air quality for the last five years. The company not only manufactures purifiers but also provides turnkey solutions for clean, environment-friendly and allergy-free spaces for hotels, hospitals, day-care centres, spa and meeting rooms. “The air purifier is suitable for 500sqft of residential, corporate and even commercial areas. Our staff is trained by our principal company Pure Room in the US. Major hotels like JW Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt and Starwood are already members of Pure Room,” says Mohit.
Caere is in the process of converting all premium rooms at ITC Maurya Sheraton into ‘Pure Rooms’. It is also in talks with few BPOs in India to install the Pure Room system. Ernst and Young in Taiwan has already converted its office into ‘Pure Room’. More than 2000 rooms of the Hyatt chain in the US and Canada have been converted into Pure Rooms. ‘Respire by Hyatt’, a different category of rooms also has the Pure Room system.
Mohit says, “We not only provide solutions for indoor air quality when we turn or convert any place into a ‘Pure Room’, but also certify it as clean and pure room.”
