CASE STUDY: Air Quality (New Material Off-Gassing) - Brand New Library The Colorado mountain town of Granby completed a new, award winning library in 2007. After opening, staff and patrons complained about a variety of indoor air quality issues they had noticed at different times throughout the day. Eventually the management had to close the library and call Envergent.

We began with a series of tests as part of our complete indoor air quality assessment. After completing this process, Envergent uncovered a number of issues. The primary problem was a combination of new building materials that were still off-gassing, along with a ventilation system that was not operating properly.

Our report not only showed all problem areas in great detail, but it also provided an extensive recommendation list to include changes that needed to be made to the building's ventilation system, and also replacement of certain building materials.

The library followed this advice carefully and was able to solve this problem quickly and affordably.