Controlling Where the Air Goes
Negative air pressure is the engineering control that makes contaminated work safe to perform inside an occupied building. By exhausting more air from the containment than enters it, the enclosure is held at lower pressure than the surrounding space, so air always flows into the work area and never out of it. Combined with HEPA filtration that captures 99.97 percent of particles at 0.3 microns, this is what keeps mold spores, asbestos and lead particulate, sewage aerosols, silica and construction dust confined.