Indoor Environmental Testing – Health Friendly Air™
Health friendly air (HFA) provides specialist, health-based indoor air testing and consultancy services for workplaces, homes, hospitals, schools, underground car parks and retail outlets. Our mission is simple: to help organisations and building owners understand what’s in their indoor air, what it means for health, and how to reduce exposure risks through evidence-led solutions.
People spend the vast majority of their time indoors, and air quality can directly influence respiratory health, comfort, productivity and infection control. Whether you are responding to occupant concerns, supporting a remediation plan, validating ventilation performance, or gathering data for product development, HFA delivers reliable results supported by robust aerobiology expertise.
What we do
HFA offers a complete indoor air quality assessment service, from initial scoping through to sampling, analysis and actionable reporting. Our work focuses on health-relevant airborne contaminants, including microbial and allergenic exposures, and we tailor every project to the building type, occupancy and risk profile.
Typical projects include:
- Investigation of reported indoor air complaints, odour or dampness issues
- Baseline air quality surveys for new or refurbished buildings
- Microbial air monitoring to support infection prevention and control (IPC)
- Ventilation and filtration performance validation
- Post-remediation verification testing
- Product and technology evaluation (e.g., air cleaners, filters, UV, ventilation innovations)
- Risk assessments aligned with occupational health requirements
Who we support
We work with a wide range of organisations across Ireland and internationally, including:
- Employers and facility managers
- Healthcare providers and hospital estates teams
- Schools, universities and childcare facilities
- Residential property owners and housing bodies
- Retail and commercial landlords
- Environmental health and safety professionals
- Manufacturers developing indoor air technologies
Our expertise and facility
Health friendly air is backed by Airmid Healthgroup, a biomedical aerobiology contract research facility based in Dublin, Ireland. We operate from a 20,000 sq ft purpose-built site, which includes:
- 10 dedicated aerobiology testing chambers for controlled, repeatable air experiments
- BSL-2 laboratories supporting allergen, virology and microbiology testing
- Specialist aerosol generation and sampling systems
- Environmental control for temperature, humidity and ventilation scenarios
This infrastructure enables highly controlled testing for real-world indoor air challenges — from microbial and allergen behaviour in air, to efficacy studies for air cleaning technologies.
Learn more about our aerobiology testing chambers and BSL-2 laboratories and how we run controlled indoor air studies.
Quality, standards and accreditations
All HFA services are delivered under a strong quality framework. We are:
- ISO/IEC 17025 accredited, ensuring technically valid testing and reliable results
- AHAM AC-5 accredited for microbial performance testing
- Experienced in running projects in line with Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) requirements where needed
These accreditations mean clients can confidently use our data for regulatory submissions, internal validation, product claims, or high-stakes building decisions.
What you get
Every HFA project is designed to be practical and decision-ready. Clients receive:
- Clear sampling strategy agreed in advance
- Transparent, defensible methods
- Results interpreted in a health-based context
- Easy-to-understand reporting with next-step recommendations
- Support in communicating findings to stakeholders or occupants
Where appropriate, we also provide follow-on guidance to help reduce indoor air risks through ventilation optimisation, filtration, cleaning programmes or remediation planning.
Talk to us
If you need indoor air testing or expert consultancy — whether for a specific problem, a proactive survey, or a controlled technology evaluation — Health friendly air can help. Contact our team to discuss your building, your objectives, and the most suitable testing approach.
For a complete list of HFA products and services please visit
www.healthfriendlyair.com
The Airmid Healthgroup health friendly air® service provides independent health based indoor air testing and consultancy for the built environment. Clients who have used our services across the world include facilities management companies, hospitals, laundries, bakeries, airlines, schools, libraries, museums, underground car parks and retail outlets.
Our services include:
- Indoor air quality testing
- Investigations of complaints of indoor air quality issues
- Air and surface sampling for mould, bacteria and allergens
- Ventilation system hygiene assesments with biological sampling
- Chemical risk assessments and exposure monitoring for dusts, fumes, gases and vapours
- Noise and light assessments
- Home testing kits to assess house dust mite allergen levels
Expert Reports
Our unique range of expertise positions us as a leading provider of expert reports on indoor air quality issues. Our team has investigated and reported on several high profile indoor air quality cases around the world. We can provide;
- Comprehensive onsite testing to identify potential causes of indoor air quality issues
- Rapid response
- Independent verification of healthy indoor air
- Monitoring for surface and airborne biological contamination (mould, bacteria and allergens)
- The ability to interpret results in the context of possible adverse health effects
- An approach tailored specifically to client needs
Why Airmid Healthgroup?
Airmid Healthgroup offers access to a team of specialist scientists, public health experts and medical professionals operating from a state of the art testing facility. airmid’s facilities include a number of walk-in climate controlled chambers designed to simulate the indoor environment. These chambers are surrounded by an ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accredited allergen laboratory, along with microbiology and virology laboratories, enabling rapid analysis of samples. These assets, together with our experience of assessing indoor air quality issues in the field through our Health Friendly Air® programme, provide a unique body of knowledge in this area. Our clients use this knowledge to help ensure optimum health, productivity and legal compliance.
