Government centers, shopping malls, schools, sports arenas and other venues shuttered due to the COVID-19 lockdowns require extra precaution when reopening to protect building water health.
Legionella can grow to outbreak levels in seven days, but traditional Legionella culture-testing methods take 14 days to provide a result, LiquiTech points out.
With many states finally lifting stay-at-home orders and businesses reopening, employees returning to work may have new illnesses to worry about other than coronavirus.
We just finished unpacking and sterilizing our peapod grocery delivery this morning: Anything going in the house was wiped down with paper towels soaked in Clorox disinfectant.
According to the American Hospital Association, nearly 37 million people are admitted to a hospital every year in the United States. Hospitals and health care facilities have a more varied population than other buildings due to the range of ages and the conditions for which patients are treated.
While the saying “Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” may be popular among those who skirt tragedy through life, it is not an attitude we can adopt as engineers.