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Does outdoor air pollution affect indoor air quality? Depending on a building’s HVAC system, fine particulate pollution, or PM2.5, from wildfire smoke can infiltrate buildings, while pollution associated with dust events and winter inversions is kept out.

Using the U campus as a lab, researchers conclude inversion and dust pollution are kept out of buildings, but wildfire smoke can sneak inside if air-side economizers are in use.

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