The problem is a common one: A smell like dirty socks emanates from HVAC ducts. When the people in one facility complained, Warren Lowe, an HVAC maintenance mechanic for a major Midwest electric utility, packed up his tools and headed for the site.

It was a brand new house in a high-end development - a place anyone would be proud to call home. But inside, it stank. So like thousands of others, the bewildered general contractor called the indoor environmental specialists at Enviro Team Group.

Ask many school administrators about the air quality inside their buildings, and the frank answer is liable to be “Well, we don’t know.” They should. School air quality and student performance go together as naturally as breathing in and breathing out.