Maintaining airflow and managing airborne contaminants allows for a healthy work environment and enables facilities to remain open during construction.

Importance of Airflow on the Job Site:Ā 

  • Create a healthy airflow during construction.
  • Provide adequate ventilation while the facility is undergoing construction.
  • Protect sensitive machinery and electronics from damage.

Proper Airflow benefits Companies

While companies do not come to us with airflow problems to solve, they come for dust and debris protection. We see issues with air pressure in all facility types and all industries. Sometimes, a company is aware of the air pressure issues and notifies us before the start of the job. However, most of the time, the air pressure issues are identified after the installation is complete. The need for proper airflow is taken into account when developing TuffWrap Solutions. When a failure occurs, TuffWrap can resolve issues in the facility where air flow and resulting changes in air pressures are excessive. The TuffWrap Solution is adapted to accommodate the need for proper airflow.Ā 

Airflow Management

TuffWrap Solutions utilizes proprietary installation methods and code-compliant materials to manage airflow and keep airborne contaminants from spreading during construction. Accommodations examples include installing:

  • Interior walls in places where a large HVAC handler is supposed to provide heating or cooling to an entire open space, but our wall divides the space. This results in a large pressure differential (high pressure on one side and low pressure on the other).
  • An enclosure using a combination of our walls and suspended cover to act as a clean room. This type of enclosure has to maintain a high pressure relative to its surroundings (so that contaminants flow out of the clean room and not into the clean room).
  • Suspended Cover and/or interior walls in places where garage doors and/or man doors are opened and closed. Every time a door is opened it causes a positive pressure on the side of the wall where the door is. Or, in places where large doors like hangar doors are opened, the walls or suspended cover is exposed to large pressure differentials.

Changes in Air Pressure

Often, when temporary barrier products are in place at the job site, the facility experiences changes in air pressure. The air pressure changes can be caused by HVAC, air filtration, and refrigeration systems. In addition, doors leading into the protected space are opened and closed. The air pressure changes at the facility can result in excess stress on the TuffWrap suspended cover and interior walls. TuffWrap Solutions includes techniques to mitigate the issues related to changing air pressures. When air pressure is high enough to cause failure of temporary interior barrier systems, TuffWrap options include installing:

  • TuffWrap EXT Exterior Protection in place of SmartSeam Suspended Cover.
  • TuffWrap EXT Exterior Walls in place of TuffWrap Interior Walls in areas where air pressures could cause failure of our interior walls.
  • Air filters to allow airflow from one side of the wall to the other.