Camfil’s Road Show Trailer has won the Swedish Stora Inneklimatpriset award. The prize was established in 2001 by the web portal Slussen Building Services in cooperation with three professional trade organisations in the Swedish heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration industries. The purpose of the award is to build interest in issues concerning indoor climate technology.
Camfil’s Swedish subsidiary, Camfil Svenska, is the recipient of the prize, which is given to Swedish companies or organizations that have developed a valuable commercial product or service in the indoor climate/IAQ field, energy technology and HVAC industry. Camfil was one of five nominees for the award.
Camfil’s Road Show Trailer is a mobile indoor air quality (IAQ) laboratory and exhibition to promote awareness about the importance of good IAQ and the dangers of air pollution for human health. Since it was launched in 2011, the trailer has toured in 15 countries in northern, central and southern Europe.
The jury selected Camfil Svenska as the winner because, it said, the company has taken an innovative approach to increase interest in – and spread knowledge about –an urgent problem area. ‘During the past few years, a number of reports in the field of environmental medicine have pointed out that fine airborne particles can have serious consequences for human health,’ the jury said in a statement. ‘Because we spend a large part of our time indoors, effective filtration of the air – before it is supplied to the indoor environment – considerably reduces the population’s overall exposure to dangerous particles.
Camfil may not be the only company that supplies good air filters, but they have taken a unique approach to a problem area with their Road Show Trailer – a rolling air quality laboratory
‘Camfil may not be the only company that supplies good air filters, but they have taken a unique approach to a problem area with their Road Show Trailer – a rolling air quality laboratory. The trailer is used to clearly demonstrate how filters function, point out the differences between filter classes and, not least important, explain the consequences of filter choices for the energy consumption of air handling units and ventilation systems.
‘Camfil is actively striving to disseminate knowledge among politicians and decision-makers. This transfer of professional knowledge is benefiting the ventilation industry as a whole and contributing to our possibilities for creating healthier indoor environments. Camfil is a worthy recipient of the 2012 prize.’
‘Camfil is very pleased to receive this prestigious prize in our home country of Sweden, which recognises our efforts to educate the general public and policymakers about the importance of maintaining good air quality through effective filtration and selecting the right filters to reduce the power consumption of ventilation systems,’ says Erik Markman, Vice President for Communication, Camfil Group.
‘Through our Road Show Trailer and other initiatives, we aim to explain how differences in filters impact a building’s energy consumption, and how differences in filters also make a difference for the air occupants breathe.’