IBPA®
Indoor air quality
for energy efficiency
and sustainability.
IBPA® Breaking News !
September, 2024:
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Pradditive® its the first company to obtain for its client the first CAE (spanish Energy Saving Certificate) grant for the improvement of indoor air quality in buildings, reducing airborne pathogens with IBPA®, verifying the Spanish Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (MITECO), a 44,2% total annual energy HVAC system consumption saving, in a hotel building, in Madrid.
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This official recognition sets IBPA® as the largest efficiency energy and decarbonizing measure in none residential buildings.
The recent adopted spanish national CAE system (RD. 36/2023) for energy savings produced direct subsidues, charged to the National Energy Efficiency Fund, is the Spanish transposition of the European Directive on EU Tradable White Certificates (2012/27/EU).
IBPA®, Indoor Air Quality and Energy Efficiency.
IBPA® is a professional (non-domestic) air purification system, which adapts to any ventilation and air-conditioning system without any building work, to improve indoor air quality, optimise ventilation and reduce annual consumption. It is eligible in the design or refitting of tertiary buildings, regardless of their ventilation flow rate, in accordance with the provisions of the European ventilation and energy efficiency regulations (UNE-EN13799:2008, UNE-EN16798:2020) and the american ASHRAE 62.1 (IAQP) standard.
The indoor air quality improvement produced with IBPA® allows us to technically justify the significant reduction of the current indoor air flow rates in the building and based in regulation standards, which are minimum, constant and compulsory while in service. In this way, by reducing the ventilation airflow, while maintaining the environmental hygiene required by the standards, we reduce the ventilation thermal load and the total thermal load of the building, reducing the power needs for cold and heat production, as well as the annual HVAC consumption.
IBPA® is recognised by LEED, WELL, BREEAM and DGNB certifications, being a must to guarantee its maximum recognition, including distinguished points, both in new and existing constructions, in the areas of Energy Efficiency, Indoor Air Quality, Emissions to the environment and in the use of New Technologies. The consumption reductions IBPA produces make it especially recommendable for achieving the NetZero objectives within the Europe 20/30 plan; sustainable constructions, energetically neutral in their carbon footprint.
Edificio de oficinas BREEAM, sede IT Now, (Barcelona)
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IBPA®, improving sustainability (CSR).
Increases the energy efficiency of the building, reducing the regulatory ventilation contribution, maintaining mandatory indoor air quality and reducing primary energy consumption by:​
HVAC consumption
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1st Building Energy Cost
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Reduces the building's carbon footprint at its largest source of consumption, helping to achieve a net zero balance.
Reduces the material execution of works budget, in new constructions and integral rehabilitations, optimising the HVAC installation (LEAN criteria).
Increases the value of the property, improving LEED, WELL, BREEAM and/or DGNB international certifications.
How it works?
By generating low-intensity non-dielectric electrostatic fields, distributed throughout the building's ventilation and air-conditioning system, they work in combination with traditional filtration to increase its performance. The IBPA® relies exclusively on one physical principle of action, electrical energy. This makes the technology compliant with European and American ventilation regulations, as well as health regulations, and it is completely safe for human exposure.
IBPA® produces charged ions with an adjustable and determined polarity, which react with the particles of opposite polarity present in the building indoor air flows, agglomerating or clustering them into groups or sets of particles, with a greater resulting mass and diameter. This makes existing conventional filters in building HVAC systems to deal with larger particles, thus improving their trapping capacity and making them equal to filters of 5 or even 7 categories higher.​
IBPA® has a proven ability to reduce the following airborne pathogens:
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Suspended particulate matter.
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Volatile organic compounds (VOC).
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Moulds and spores.
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Viruses and bacteria.
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Harmful odour particles.
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The ionic charge produced does not generate concentration of atmospheres as the ions, in contact with other particles, are discharged back to their previous condition. Properly calculated, its potential is sufficient to produce the agglomeration of organic and inorganic particles and VOC´s oxidation. As for the inactivation of certain viruses, bacteria and moulds, it does this effectively and indirectly by trapping and drying them in the traditional HVAC filters. This is the basis for the recognition of IBPA® as a collective protection measure (ORP), generating a real barrier to the transmission of pathogens and contaminants by aerosols.
Edificio Hotel Radisson Blu Prado (Madrid)
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Sectors of aplication.
HVAC consumption represents, on average, 55% of total building consumption, and can easily reach 70%, depending on the activity and the composition of the energy balance. IBPA® is able to significantly reduce this consumption, reducing the minimum mandatory outdoor ventilation airflow and thermal load by improving indoor air quality.
IBPA® is particularly suitable for the following sectors of activity given their exposure to the annual and operating cost of the HVAC system:
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Commercial / Retail
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Educational (Schools / Universities)
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Hotels
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Hospitals
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Laboratories
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Museums
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Offices
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Residences
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Restaurants
Edificio MNAC, Museo Nacional de Arte de Catalunya (Barcelona)
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Regualtions and Standards to be applied.
IBPA® is recommended by the Spanish Ministries of Health, Labour, Ecological Transition and for the Demographic Challenge, by the INSST and IDAE and recognised in the european Tradeable White Certificates system (National Energy Efficiency Action Plans - Directive 2006/32/EC), applied in the building HVAC systems. This has been officially published, due to its notable capacity to reduce environmental pollutants.
​In the absence of a specific air purification regulation, the Spanish, European and American Administrations points out and warns that, in order to carry out a project based on electrostatic filtration, which could produce other environmental by-products derived from its main action depending on the chosen technology, the following essential requirements must be met in order to be applied in the ventilation standards:
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1. To be in possession of the following certifications with European validity, of the emitting equipment.
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CE marking.
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Zero ozone emissions.
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Do not produce polluting by-products, derived from its own action.
2. The installation must be carried out by a competent technician or company.
3. Comply with European Directive 528/2012 on the use and placing on the biocidal products commercialisation.
4. Comply with European Directive 59/2013/EURATOM on the humans to ionising radiation exposure.
Pradditive®, complies with all the requirements officially demanded by the european Administration, has the European certifications issued in its name and has accredited experience in the calculation and execution of this type of projects. We encourage our distinguished clients to request all the technical information and regulatory standards, as well as sufficient experiential guarantees from the companies, before starting a project based on electrostatic filtration.​
Edificio oficinas BREEAM + WELL, Greenvia Building (Barcelona)
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Business Cases.
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Audiovisuals College building.​​​
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Below, we summarise the results obtained by IBPA® in different building typologies. Do not hesitate to contact us if you are interested in consulting the complete technical development of the project, the calculation justification in the current european or american ventilation regulations or the result certifications by third party accredited IAQ laboratories.
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Edificio LEED + WELL de oficinas, GREEN BUSINESS DISTRICT PARK (Barcelona)
Downloads.
COMMERCIAL BROUCHURE
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​IBPA® commercial brouchure.
OTHER DOCS
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Responsible Declaration. Pradditive's of compliance with the regulatory and mandatory framework, on people safety. ​​