The Community College of Rhode Island administration is aware of the importance of maintaining a healthy indoor environment and strives to provide it at all times for its faculty, staff and students. CCRI's approach to maintaining good indoor air quality is many-fold and involves the participation of a wide segment of the College community. All systems are operated under preventative maintenance programs. System components such as blowers, ducts, heating coils, chillers and filters are inspected and serviced by outside contractors as well as trained in-house personnel.
Service is on a predetermined regular schedule.
Special inspections and maintenance may be done in response to system malfunctions and complaints by College staff. Operation of the HVAC systems is controlled by a computerized system that anticipates heating and cooling loads over a 24-hour period. Overrides of the system are done when a building or room is to be used for an unusual purpose or for a function not on the regular schedule. CCRI is a completely smoke-free college. That means that no smoking is allowed in any indoor area, including classrooms, cafeterias, field houses and outbuildings.