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Coworking spaces

Coworking

Coworking is a new and lasting way of working. France is the most important market in Europe for coworking spaces and the demand for integration is growing.

The hybrid way of working seems to be perennial and the combination of working at home, at the office and in a shared office (coworking) is considered as a growing demand from employees and companies.

This way of organizing oneself reduces the time spent in transportation and allows companies to make significant savings in office operating costs. This way of working would be ecological and economical.

Coworking also offers modularity, a quick flexibility to adapt to the changing needs of its customers.

1) Context

Coworking is therefore a shared space that offers freelancers or small teams to work together in the same space, with or without a dedicated space available to them. This organization encourages spontaneous collaborative work. These spaces offer the comfort of working from home combined with a social life within a community.

The rapid increase in the number of self-employed workers, who nevertheless wish to socialize, network and share occasionally needed skills, justifies the rapid development of the number of coworking centers. The list of professions very represented in these spaces is eloquent: self-employed people like developers, web content creators, designers, consultants, communicators, artists and other freelancers.

On the other hand, these spaces also lend themselves easily to group events, thus contributing to their popularity: conferences, workshops, experiments and various parties...

Coworking spaces are opening frequently, all over the world and France is at the forefront of this development.

2) Benefits and opportunities

The self-employed worker finds in the use of coworking spaces many advantages. They have access to high quality and professional level equipment: the quality of the internet networks, the photocopiers, the printers are sized the same as in a large company.

They also have access to meeting rooms with top-of-the-line equipment such as sound systems, desks, screens and video projectors.

They integrate a convivial place of exchange and sharing, a community within which the nourished exchanges can be fruitful for the business and the positive emulation.

These places also generally have spaces of relaxation, small restaurants where the tenant will be able to balance his personal life and to benefit from the professional or ludic events which take place there.

3) Risks encountered

However, shared coworking spaces have the same weaknesses as meeting rooms and open spaces in companies.

Beyond the indoor air pollution linked to outdoor pollution, the indoor air pollution produced by its users and the volatile organic compounds (VOC) produced by coatings, glues, varnishes, copiers, molds and the risks of viral and bacterial transmissions are exacerbated by the density of users.

To protect and reassure users, several options are available for coworking spaces:

  • Install an efficient air handling unit (AHU) that is perfectly controlled and maintained.

  • Reduce tenant density, increase the space devoted to individuals, with the risk of a drop in income and therefore profitability, or compensate by increasing rents at the risk of losing its attractiveness.

  • Use air purifiers to ensure healthy air, free of biological and chemical pollutants and reducing the risk of contamination between tenants.

At AIR ET SANTÉ, you have a complete range of medical grade air purifiers, adapted to each need, from the small office of 10 m² to the large room of 500 m².

All our air purifiers are equipped with HEPA 13 or 14 filters and activated carbon filters to eliminate fine particles and volatile organic compounds.

4) Facts and key numbers

We spend more than 80% of our time indoors, at the office, in our homes and the indoor air is more polluted than the outdoor air (Source: Ecologie Gouv).

The external pollution infiltrates inside, concentrates and with our activities and we add to it our own production of pollutants harmful to our health. In addition, household products, furniture, paints, varnishes, glues, building materials and office equipment emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and bad odors.

The NFX35-102 standard (Source: Afnor), written before the pandemic, recommends an office surface of 10 m² per employee, 15 m² in the case of collective spaces and 3 m² for a meeting room.

Pandemics have occurred one after the other over the past 10 years, and according to medical and scientific institutions, we will now have to learn to live with this risk. Moreover, air pollution affects our respiratory tracts (asthma) and increases the indoor containment of pollution fumes, formaldehyde, ozone, benzene or carbon monoxide.

In order to guarantee our devices' efficiency, at AIR ET SANTÉ, we equip our air purifiers with 5 levels of filtration including pre-filters, HEPA 13 or HEPA 14 filters, activated carbon filters and complementary devices such as photocatalysis with a UV lamp and an ionizer that diffuse negative ions. Only one of our purifiers has a humidifier option.

These air purifiers are very effective in cleaning and purifying the air, fighting against the concentration of fine particles in the interior, pollutants and thus effectively clean the air we breathe. However, they will not replace 100% of the ventilation systems or CMV.

They are useful in offices, meeting rooms, movable partitions and some companies now integrate our air purifiers in the walls of their buildings. They offer to the users a purified air, a lesser risk of transmission, but also to eliminate the pollutants, the allergens supporting the health of all.

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