“Ventilation and filtration provided by heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems can reduce the airborne concentration of SARS-CoV-2 and thus the risk of transmission through the air,” ASHRAE said in an April 20 statement. Ventilation—the introduction of fresh outside air into a space such as an airport—can reduce contaminants by exhausting some of the existing…

Prudent airport management calls for special planning efforts. Airports will need to better understand power demand forecasts, assess on-site energy generation and microgrid technologies, determine the likely timing of these changes, and predict their impact on current infrastructure. Large-Scale Airport Electrification Takes Off A recent Airport Cooperative Research Program study forecast the cumulative impact of…