Top 5 Benefits of Improving Indoor Air Quality in Your Venue
Improving indoor air quality is actually very important for venues, and often overlooked.
Breathe in. Breathe out. Now try dancing the night away at a live concert.
Experiencing shallow breathing and feeling exhausted too soon?
This is just one of many scenarios that guests could go through because of poor air quality in a concert hall or any other indoor venue.
The indoor air quality determines people’s comfort within an enclosed environment.
If breathing feels like you’re trying to get oxygen through a coffee stirrer, it will take a toll on the body.
That said, enhancing air quality in venues not only allows guests to feel more comfortable but could also offer numerous advantages for people who rent them out and businesses that use them for their corporate affairs.
Want to know how?
Below are the top five benefits of having better indoor air quality in an event venue:
1. Eliminates unwanted odors that chase people away
2. Deals with sickness-causing allergens and pollutants
3. Keeps electricity bills manageable
4. Enhances guest and employee comfort
5. Offers an extra safety net for venue users
1. Eliminates unwanted odors that chase people away
The quality of air within any given space can affect the presence of smells.
Unwanted odors, like those that come from molds, tend to linger within the room without proper ventilation.
Plus, any enclosed space that lacks “a way out” for these awful smells can also cause the spread of germs, pollutants, and other irritants into the air.
More importantly, the smells that come from molds may cause discomfort and unpleasant symptoms, such as:
– Headaches
– Dizziness
– Nausea
– Fatigue
– Skin rash
– Nose, throat, and eye irritation
By installing an air filtration and ventilation system, you ensure good air quality within your venue.
This will prevent the emergence of unappealing scents that could chase away potential clients thinking about hiring your event space, or attendees of your own events.
2. Deals with sickness-causing allergens and pollutants
In a perfect world, nobody would be allergic to anything.
Unfortunately, the real world is the exact opposite as the majority of the population tends to develop a form of inhalant allergy over time.
As mentioned earlier, irritants spread faster within a poorly ventilated indoor space.
This means that if your venue has poor air quality, it’s more likely that people who stay inside – guests, performers, and even the venue staff – could develop respiratory issues like allergic rhinitis.
By taking steps to improve the indoor air quality in your event space, you reduce the risks of respiratory complaints and other health-related issues.
Even the people who already had allergies before they visit your venue would benefit from having good air quality indoors.
3. Keeps electricity bills manageable
Air quality and energy efficiency are two separate features that make the venue much more profitable.
Of course, this doesn’t necessarily mean that you can’t enjoy both simultaneously.
With the proper use of ventilation, you can enhance the quality of air inside the space and reduce the power supply used for the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system simultaneously.
There’s been an ongoing discussion about a building’s energy efficiency reducing indoor air quality and vice versa, but what you should keep in mind is that a balance between the two is achievable.
You only need to understand and account for the pertinent factors below in your ventilation system to strike the right balance:
– Proper airflow: The air pressure shouldn’t be too high or too low. Otherwise, the ventilation system might end up working too hard only to push too little air.
– Humidity, temperature, and carbon dioxide levels: Check and compare these with ideal thresholds to determine the overall health of your HVAC system.
4. Enhances guest and employee comfort
What measuring instruments tell you about the air quality in your venue is one thing.
But having guests complain about uncomfortable conditions already warrants a quick resolution to your indoor air quality situation.
Comfort is relative, sure, but that doesn’t mean you should just disregard any complaints, especially those from people who are directly affected.
Think of it like this:
Clients tend to consider the seating arrangements and overall layout when choosing an event venue.
They also ask about amenities and the venue capacity and often check out the ambiance in the space themselves.
Do you know the common denominator among these considerations? All of them affect the event attendees’ level of comfort.
So even if you don’t usually see “indoor air quality” among the list of venue selection considerations, you must remember that it does have a significant impact on your clients’ decisions.
5. Offers an extra safety net for venue users
Attendees, performers, and event organizers also look for safety measures in the venues to investigate.
Besides criminal threats, this also covers health safety, especially in this post-pandemic age.
In other words, knowing the air quality in your venue helps your clients decide whether to choose your space or not.
In addition to mask requirements, limited capacity, and social distancing guidelines, venues must also take steps to potentially eradicate viruses that float in the air.
This comes after more research on new strains of coronavirus focused more on the airborne transmission from the previous surface contact transmission angle.
Given the extent of the effect the pandemic had on the tourism and entertainment sector, indoor air quality is bound to remain one of the most significant considerations when selecting venues, long after the emergence of COVID-19.
The takeaway
Indoor air quality in event venues has a significant impact not only on revenue but also on the health and well-being of all who stay in the premises.
Make smart choices for your venue’s HVAC system and be guided by the top benefits of good air quality listed in this article.
