Ventilation
Laboratories have very strict air flow requirements that you may have never considered before. For example, it is not uncommon for the air in a lab to be exchanged 10 or 20 times per hour. As you might imagine, this results in a tremendous amount of energy consumption. In fact, ventilation systems have been shown to account for nearly half of all energy used in a lab. As an example, a chemical fume hood uses, on average, as much energy as 3.5 households every day. To learn more about what you can do to improve the efficiency of you lab's ventilation system, click on the links below.