Clean Air Building Certificate

Space Type: Restaurant
Establishment Name: Marlaina's Mediterranean Kitchen
Address: 643 SW 152nd Street
City: Burien
State / Province: WA
Country: US
Date: 2/11/2022
Data Source: Facility Owner
Performed by: External Company
Company Name Address Contact:
Requirement Source: CDC Guideline for airborne room contagions

Technology: HVAC System Ceiling Level UV-C
Min ACH: 12 Max ACH: Avg ACH: eACH: 20
Filter MERV:
Percent Outside Air:
ON and Ventilates Entire Indoor Area: Yes
Vent Clearance min 6 ft: Yes
No of Rooms: sqft: cuft: No of Buildings: 1

Comments: Marlaina's COVID-19 Investment for our customers and staff Burien’s Marlaina’s Mediterranean restaurant is now a very safe place to gather and enjoy your favorite meal and wine. Along with additional sanitation practices, we have installed low-dose germicidal ultraviolet C (GUV) light in our front dining room. In addition, we have installed ceiling fans to pull everyone's exhaled air upward, where the GUV annihilates the coronavirus. Added to usual ventilation, this achieves the equivalent of more air changes per hour than the CDC standard of 12 air changes per hour for hospitals. You may have heard that UV disinfection can be dangerous for someone in the room. The high-dose close-up UVC that is used in heating ducts or water disinfection could give you sunburn and make your eyes itch, but we don't use anything like that. Our GUV is a low-dose CDC-and WHO-established technique used safely for many decades around the world in tuberculosis (TB) clinics, homeless shelters and similar places. It is very effective at killing TB and the coronavirus. People understand that with medical devices, as with drugs, the dosage and how it is used are especially important. The maximum UVC exposure in the people zone, everywhere in our new system, is 30 nanoWatts/square centimeter, less than one-tenth of continuous permitted exposure for 8 hours. We made this investment so our staff would have a safe work environment and so our customers would have a safe environment that they can come to enjoy themselves. We hope other shops, restaurants, waiting rooms, etc. will also help make our indoor environments safe with properly installed GUV, so we can re-open our lives in America!For more details and information see this recent article in NPR featuring Marlaina's efforts and ultraviolet light: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/07/13/890387205/coronavirus-sparks-new-interest-in-using-ultraviolet-light-to-disinfect-indoor-aThis is not medical advice, but for information only. For medical advice, please consult your health care provider.For further information about the safety of GUV go here:https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/17/davidson-uv-lights-could-be-used-to-fight-airborne-coronavirus/

In the wake of the COVID-19 disaster many are calling for a paradigm shift in how citizens and government officials think about the quality of the air we breathe indoors. This Clean Air Certificate lets you know that those who operate this building are thinking about the air that we breathe in this building. They have disclosed the ventilation performance of this building so that we all become educated and we never have another indoor infection disaster again.