Rupp Industries makes IAQ top priority for family member with rare allergy. (indoor air quality; Alan Rupp)(includes related articles)

Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News, April, 1996 by Clepper, Irene

Family-owned Rupp Industries, a Burnsville, MN-based maker of heating/air-conditioning equipment, has installed a special low-toxics training room in the company's new 142,000-sq-ft building. The room will allow family member Alan Rupp, who suffers from an allergic disorder called multiple chemical sensitivities, to return to work at the company. Rupp Industries hired the Healthy Building Consulting Group to consult on the training room's indoor air quality.

BURNSVILLE, Minn. - Alan Rupp is looking forward to working a 40-hour week. It's been a painful eight years since he could.

Rupp suffers from multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS), extreme allergic reactions to various chemicals found in standard workplace settings.

He is also allergic to most common...

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