Clean Air America helps college attain LEED Gold certification

November 7, 2011

Clean Air America Inc., Atlanta, a manufacturer of air filtration products that protect workers and the environment, recently helped South Puget Sound Community College (SPSCC) meet LEED® Gold certification. SPSCC trains students to become welders in the building trades, shipbuilding, bridge construction, welding fabrication, and maintenance repair work.

“Typically, the welding process generates large amounts of smoke and dust that can be unhealthy for students to breathe while learning welding skills,” said John Goss, adviser, SPSCC Welding Program. “We chose the Clean Air WeldStation 5 because it works perfectly to keep clean the entire weld lab, which operates five days a week from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.”

The system is a one-piece, self-contained welding work center that removes all welding smoke and grinding dust so that the weld lab has clean air for students to breathe. Using the filtration product contributed to the overall points the facility accumulated for LEED Gold certification.

Clean Air America designs and manufactures turnkey engineered products for welding, grinding, and plasma cutting applications in technical training facilities, vocational schools, sheet metal shops, and manufacturing plants.