Keeping Pollutants Out:
Entryway Design for Green Buildings

The indoor air quality mantra “ Eliminate, Isolate, Ventilate” describes a sound framework for ensuring safe indoor environments. In the first of these strategies, we tend to focus on the materials and products used in construction—specifying low-VOC paints, choosing formaldehyde-free wood products, perhaps avoiding mineral fiber insulation materials. While careful material selection is very important and should be considered with any green building project, often far greater benefit can be achieved at far lower cost simply by designing entryways and managing buildings to remove tracked-in pollutants from shoes.

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