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Covid-19, how the design may contain the virus

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Sometimes it is really difficult to be able to keep at least a meter of distance between people as a safety measure recommended by the Ministry of Health to avoid contagion from coronavirus. On some occasions it is even impossible. For example when we take a lift (especially in condominium ones, usually smaller), where the danger also hides in the push-button panel and handles that may have been contaminated.
To avoid the risk of contagion IGV Group, a Milanese company specializing in this sector, has developed CARe, a kit that it sanitizes the air and sterilizes the cabin just like in the operating theaters. Can be installed in any system, sanitizes the space in a few minutes thanks to two different technologies, as the company explains in a note: “An ultraviolet UV-C light, the same tested at a sanitary level and used for the sanitization of hospital environments, guarantees the complete sterilization of the cabin surfaces, while a ventilation device with absolute HEPA filter combined with an activated carbon membrane, in able to capture viruses and bacteria carried by the particulate matter, it sanitizes the air. The air exchange is almost instantaneous and sterilization takes place in the stand-by phase ”.

How CARe works, the IGV Group kit that sanitizes the lift air and sterilizes the cabin

This is just one example of how the use of materials and technologies for the spaces in which we spend time can play a fundamental role in containing the virus. And designers will increasingly rely on these systems that help raise biosecurity measures. Even in outdoor places. This is the case of another project resulting from the creativity made in Italy: Tensoforma, brand name Bergamo active in the design and construction of light structures, he studied a technological fabric that exploits the antiviral and antibacterial characteristics of the silver particles capable of generate a reduction in the viral load of coronaviruses by 95% after a quarter of an hour from contact and by 99.5% after an hour. The fabric is mounted inside Texo, a patented system of modular panels with an external frame in extruded aluminum, which becomes a piece of furniture (fixed or mobile) to redesign the spaces of restaurants, bars, health facilities, schools, cultural spaces but also offices and professional activities.

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