Clean Air Award
Recognizing Leadership and Excellence in Air Filtration
2024 Clean Air Award Recipients
The Range at Austin
University Medical Center Lubbock
The University of Texas at San Antonio
The NAFA Clean Air Award recognizes indoor facilities that demonstrate excellence in air filtration. Honorees have applied NAFA’s Best Practice Guidelines to create healthier, cleaner indoor environments—setting a standard for leadership and innovation in air quality management.
What is the NAFA Clean Air Award?
The NAFA Clean Air Award recognizes indoor facilities that demonstrate excellence in air filtration. Honorees have applied NAFA’s Best Practice Guidelines to create healthier, cleaner indoor environments—setting a standard for leadership and innovation in air quality management.
Who’s Eligible?
Facility Managers who are committed to improving indoor air quality can partner with a NAFA member to apply for the Clean Air Award. Whether you're overseeing a school, hospital, commercial building, or industrial facility, this program offers a path to national recognition.
Support from Air Filtration Professionals
Looking to elevate your team’s expertise? NAFA members and Certified Air Filter Specialists (CAFS) can help your staff take ownership of your facility’s air quality through expert guidance and best practice implementation.
Will Denton, CAFS, NCTII walks NAFA's Tony Veroeven through the Clean Air Award and its judging criteria. The Clean Air Award is a program designed to recognize facilities with applied best practices in air filtration. It's one of the most underused yet valuable member benefits the National Air Filtration Association offers!
Interested in becoming a member of NAFA? Follow this link to the NAFA Membership page for more information.
Best Practice Guidelines for Air Filtration
Want to improve the air quality in your building? NAFA offers easy-to-follow Best Practice Guidelines that build on industry standards for even greater results.
The Basics vs. The Best
ASHRAE Standards – These are the industry’s minimum requirements for air filter performance. Think of them like the building codes for air quality.
NAFA Guidelines – These go further, offering expert tips tailored to your facility’s specific needs to help you achieve optimal air quality.
Analogy: If ASHRAE is like following the car manufacturer’s basic maintenance schedule, NAFA is like having a trusted mechanic offer extra tips to keep your car running at peak performance
Why It Matters
By combining ASHRAE standards with NAFA’s advanced recommendations, your facility can move from acceptable air quality to exceptional.
Ready to Get Started?
Explore the NAFA Best Practice Guidelines and share them with your facility or HVAC team. Let’s make clean air the standard—not the exception.