Was it in doubt? I heard about Legionnaire's disease spreading through air conditioning 40+ years ago.
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Its even part of standard testing protocol, and tests positive a lot...
Jesus why would ducts be shared between units
To save 15 euro for a flap and fan.
"Attention, test prisoners attempting to escape through the air ducts. I don't know what nonsense you learned on TV, but in real life, air ducts just go to the air conditioning unit. It's also pretty dusty, so if you've got asthma, chances are you're gonna die up there. And we'll be smelling it for weeks because, again, the air ducts aren't a secret escape hatch, they're how we ventilate the facility."
so you don't have to heat and cool 185 individual units one by one.
I know it's kinda gross but imagine every room in a house having it's own HVAC....?
Omg imagine bro?
nah.
Exactly.
Brilliant, what a clever retort, and it perfectly encapsulates your argument, really brings me around and gets me to see it in a different light
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You guys are getting ventilation? Best we got is a wall unit. Luckily we have heated floors, otherwise we'd also have to deal with electric radiant heaters along the floorboards.
I lived in an apartment for a summer in 2022 and the area didn't regulate cooling requirements since summers were very mild when the regulation was written. The building was new construction and only "cooled" common areas while exhausting through the apartments. At that point summers regularly had 95F/35C for ~6 weeks with peaks above 110F/43C and lows not dropping below 85F/29C.
Furthermore you could only crack the windows and one of the walls was entirely window. I had taped up foil and cardboard to block the sun.
Anyways the entire apartment building got covid simultaneously at the peak of the heat.
What?? Sharing air can allow airborne disease to spread??
Typically in the hospital isolation rooms both have their own ventilation but also have negative pressure, it’s for a reason.
Remember when buildings had windows that opened so you could let in fresh air?
I don't think I've ever seen one that doesn't have that in my country, Sweden.
I don't remember a time when the air outside my home in a car-dependent industrial city was fresh. Luckily my current apartment gets centrally filtered and heat-exchanged replacement air.
Its gotten significantly warmer
Remember when the world didn't suck so bad that you could have windows above the third floor that people didn't want to jump from?
No, not really. People have been jumping from heights since at least biblical times. Also not an excuse to prevent putting in at least small ventilation windows.
In Europe, schools were opening their windows to let in fresh air during the covid pandemic to cut down on disease transmission.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/10/13/school-windows-coronavirus-europe-winter/
Meanwhile in the US, we hire architects that design our schools like prisons, and end up with sick building syndrome because there are no windows that open.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_building_syndrome
Did you know the children who survived the mass shooting in Uvalde Texas were able to escape because they were in an older school building with windows that open? Good thing we don’t build our schools (or any other public buildings) like that anymore. 🙄
https://people.com/crime/boy-recalls-escaping-through-window-during-uvalde-texas-school-shooting/