HVAC contractors are leaving money on the table: $122 billion to be exact. The federal government’s largest pool of funds from the American Rescue Plan was designated for public schools. The Rescue Plan infused schools with $122 billion to reopen. But despite the bounty of funding, school systems throughout the U.S. have spent less than 15% of what is available to them.
Eneref Institute examined one of the 1,859 New York City public schools to learn how American Rescue Plan funds were utilized. The Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn was an early adopter of MERV-13 filtration for their numerous window air conditioning units. The NYC public school district is the largest in the U.S., with over one million students.