Benefits
Maintaining proper humidity (typically 40–60%) reduces the spread of airborne viruses, prevents dry eyes and throat irritation, and keeps employees more comfortable. This leads to fewer sick days and better overall productivity.
Healthier Employees, Fewer Sick Days
Optimal humidity (40–60%) reduces airborne virus survival, lowers respiratory irritation, and helps prevent dry eyes and skin—resulting in healthier staff and reduced absenteeism.
Higher Comfort and Productivity
Balanced humidity creates a more comfortable work environment, improving focus, reducing fatigue, and helping employees maintain consistent productivity throughout the day.
Better Protection for Office Equipment
Proper humidity prevents static electricity and excessive dryness that can damage electronics, paperwork, and office furniture, extending the lifespan of valuable assets.
Higher Comfort and Productivity in Office Environments
Maintaining optimal humidity levels (40–60%) helps reduce eye dryness, irritation, and fatigue, which are common during prolonged computer use. Proper humidity also supports overall comfort, concentration, and focus, leading to more productive screen-based work. Using a professional humidification system in dry conditions or a dehumidifier when humidity is too high, ensures that indoor air stays within this optimal and healthy range. Consistent humidity control not only protects employees’ health and reduces discomfort but also creates a more pleasant work environment, helping teams stay alert, efficient, and engaged throughout the day.
Potentially Fewer Sick Days
Maintaining relative humidity between 40% and 60% in office spaces supports employee health and comfort. This range helps reduce respiratory irritation, dry skin, and eye discomfort, while also lowering the survival rate of certain airborne viruses. Using a properly sized humidifier during dry seasons—or a dehumidifier when moisture levels are too high—helps keep indoor humidity within this optimal zone. Consistent humidity control not only promotes healthier air but also improves concentration, reduces fatigue, and supports overall well-being. As a result, workplaces can experience fewer health-related complaints, enhanced productivity, and potentially a noticeable reduction in sick days.
Use Cases
Anti-Static and ESD Prevention
Low humidity increases static buildup because dry air acts as an insulator, making electrostatic discharge (ESD) more likely. Maintaining 40–60% relative humidity helps dissipate electrical charges and significantly reduces ESD risk.
Humidification Boosts the Immune System
Controlled humidity in buildings protects the self-cleaning function of the mucous membranes, reduces the risk of infection and strengthens the immune system. Dry air promotes respiratory diseases. Additional humidification ensures healthy indoor air and strengthens the immune system.
Humidity Protects Against Dry Eyes
Controlled humidity protects against dry eyes, eye irritation, burning and redness, and prevents strain during intensive computer work.
Healthy Skin with Optimal Humidity
Symptoms and causes of dry skin, and tips for healthy skin through optimal humidity.
Humidity Reduces Respiratory Infections
Optimal humidity reduces the risk of respiratory infections, shortens the lifespan of viruses, inhibits the spread of infectious viruses through the air and protects against colds, flu and COVID-19.
Healthy voice with optimal humidity
Optimal humidity protects the voice from strain, hoarseness, and vocal issues. This is an important factor for better health and well-being—for example, in call centers, concert halls, opera houses, or customer service departments, where the voice is under significant strain and the quality of communication is important.
Indoor Evaporative Cooling with Humidification
Adiabatic evaporative cooling with additional air humidification lowers the room temperature, saves energy and improves the indoor climate – ideal for industrial, office environments and data centers.
Discover Condair in action
Havenhuis
Das Havenhuis ist seit 2016 Sitz der Hafenbehörde von Antwerpen. Es wurde von der britisch-irakischen Stararchitektin Zaha Hadid entworfen und direkt über einem denkmalgeschützen Feuerwehrgebäude aus dem Jahre 1922 errichtet. Die Form des Gebäudes soll sowohl die Stadt Antwerpen als Stadt der Diamanten symbolisieren wie auch den Seehandel durch die optische Anlehnung an die Form eines Schiffes. In der Säule auf der Aussenseite befindet sich ein Panorama-Aufzug, der einen einzigartigen Ausblick über den Hafen von Antwerpen bietet. Für ein angenehmes und gesundes Raumklima sorgen Dampf-Luftbefeuchter RS von Condair.
Sofaz Tower
Sofaz stand for the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan and is the organisations head quarters. This office complex also contains a museum of President Heydar Aliyev. It was finished in 2014, consists of 24 floors and was the first BREEAM-certified building in Azerbaijan.
Hourglass, Amsterdam
The Hourglass in Amsterdam's Zuidas business district is particularly striking due to its unusual structure and light-colored natural stone facade. Designed by Dutch star architects Dam Partner,the architecture of the 80-meter-high building complex is hourglass-shaped and based on the artwork of Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncusi.The Hourglass is a mixed-use development with 21,000 square meters of offices, 700 square meters of retail and restaurant space, and a luxury hotel with 115 apartments for long-term stays.Condair hybrid humidifiers ensure comfortable and healthy room air humidity.
FKI Tower in Seoul
Agbar Tower
Agbar Tower is a 32-story office complex located directly on the famed Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes in Barcelona. Its outer form resembles that of the 30 St Mary Axe office building in London, which was built at around the same time. Agbar Tower’s glass facade is intended to represent a water fountain which changes its colors depending on the angle of the light. This is accomplished with 40 different shades of paint that reflect the light in different ways. The effect is reinforced by thousands of glass louvers that are mounted on the outside of the facade to provide sun protection. Based on the position of the sun, they turn to provide the highest possible degree of reflection, and to create natural air circulation inside the building. At night, Agbar Tower is lit by 4,500 LED spotlights in changing colors and can be seen from far away — every bit as clearly as by day. Condair RS steam humidifiers provide optimal humidity levels for visitors to Agbar Tower.
White House
The White House is the official residence and seat of government of the President of the United States. It was originally built in 1792 based on the plans of Irish architect James Hoban, who used the Irish Parliament as his model. The center of the south façade features a neoclassical rotunda with columns, gallery and three windows. The rotunda is flanked by five windows that have alternating semicircular and pointed window hoods, as on the north façade. The building has 132 rooms, 35 bathrooms, 8 staircases, 3 elevators, a swimming pool, a tennis court and a cinema hall. A bowling alley has been existence since the Richard Nixon's administration as well as a basketball court since Barack Obama's time in office. Of course, the White House also has a healthy and comfortable humidity level, ensured by Condair steam humidifiers.
Apple Campus, Cupertino
Cupertino, California, located close to San Francisco, is home to the headquarters of American technology company Apple. The building was designed by British architect Norman Foster, who realized the idea of an oversized ring in connection with the former Apple Campus at Infinite Loop No. 1 in Cupertino.
At a diameter of almost half a mile, the building complex offers a massive 2.8 million sq ft of usable space and accommodates 12,000 employees. The ring surrounds a 1.4 million sq ft park featuring rest areas, cafés, sports facilities and a rainbow-colored festival stage that was inaugurated by Lady Gaga in 2018. Powered entirely by renewable energy, the building features a 17-megawatt rooftop solar array and energy-efficient evaporative cooling from Condair.
At a diameter of almost half a mile, the building complex offers a massive 2.8 million sq ft of usable space and accommodates 12,000 employees. The ring surrounds a 1.4 million sq ft park featuring rest areas, cafés, sports facilities and a rainbow-colored festival stage that was inaugurated by Lady Gaga in 2018. Powered entirely by renewable energy, the building features a 17-megawatt rooftop solar array and energy-efficient evaporative cooling from Condair.
Bloomberg
The European headquarters of the media company Bloomberg in London was designed by the architects Foster + Partners and opened in 2017. The building complex is one million square meters in size and has many details that have been the result of months of research and development, such as a ceiling decorated with petals that provides lighting and cooling, but also acoustic insulation.The building consists of two ten-story blocks connected by a bridge. An arcade of restaurants selected by Bloomberg's restaurant critics runs between them. The building uses 70% less water and 40% less energy than conventional office buildings and was even awarded the Stirling Prize in 2018.Condair ME evaporative humidifiers are maintaining the ideal indoor humidity for the preservation of the wooden interiors and a healthy environment for visitors.
Canary Wharf
Canary Wharf is a major business district located in Tower Hamlets, east London, England. It is one of the United Kingdom's two main financial centres - along with the traditional City of London - and contains many of Europe's tallest buildings, including the second-tallest in Great Britain, One Canada Square. Canary Wharf contains around 14,000,000 square feet (1,300,000m2) of office and retail space, of which around 7,900,000 square feet (730,000m2) is owned by Canary Wharf Group.Condair's evaporative humidifiers are maintaining a healthy humidity in many of Canary Wharf's office buildings. An indoor humidity of 40-60%RH is the optimum condition for health, as it keeps our respiratory immune system operating efficiently to combat infection, whilst reducing the quantity and infectious nature of airborne viruses.
ADAC Center, Munich
In March 2012, ADAC's new headquarters officially opened for business after six years of construction. Since December 2011, the office has been home to some 2,400 employees in over 100 professions, who were previously spread out across seven different locations. Bringing them all together in one place will encourage innovative ways of working, improve the speed of business processes, and simplify member services.
Actelion Business Center
Das imposante Gebäude im Stil des Dekonstruktivismus ist Hauptsitz des Pharmaunternehmens Actelion Ltd und wurde von den Schweizer Stararchitekten Herzog de Meuron entworfen. Die balkenartige Architektur erstreckt sich über sechs Stockwerke und bietet ungewohnte Durch- und Ausblicke, Erholungszonen mit Höfen und Terrassen sowie eine moderne Arbeitsatmosphäre für 350 Mitarbeiter. Durch die dreidimensionale Stapelung der Fassade waren 1.500 Detailzeichnungen, 2.500 Tonnen Stahl und 3,8 Kilometer Fachwerkträger notwendig, um den statischen Lastabtrag zu realisieren. Für ein optimales Raumklima ist durch innovative Hybrid-Luftbefeuchter der Serie DL von Condair bestens gesorgt.
Erste Campus
The Erste Campus in the Quartier Belvedere district is the new headquarters of the Erste Group, and has room for about 4,500 workstations. With its diverse range of restaurants and cafés, the campus avoids the self-contained isolation of a typical bank office. The building's sweeping curves create an inviting sense of openness that integrates the building seamlessly into its natural setting. Its award-winning design was created by Viennese star architects Marta Schreieck and Dieter Henke. Condair EL steam humidifiers provide for an ideal indoor climate in common spaces, offices and conference rooms.
Bauhaus
The Bauhaus in Dessau is considered the home of modern 20th century architecture. The building was opened in 1926 and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996, together with the Bauhaus site in Weimar.First it was built as a university according to the plans of Walter Gropius. In the meantime it has become the headquarters of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. The design of the building, which for the first timerelied predominantly on steel and glass, had a lasting impact on the architecture of the last century.The focus is on the principles of functionalism combined with outstanding architectural quality. Condair CP3 steam humidifiers ensure a pleasant interior climate.
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