An apparatus is provided for controlling one or more environmental control equipment configured to control environmental conditions in confined areas of a facility. The apparatus is configured to: monitor at least one of the environmental control equipment or the confined areas; detect a failure of a first of the environmental control equipment to control an environmental condition in a first of the confined areas to a setpoint for the environmental condition; and control at least one of the first or a second of the environmental control equipment to cause a body of matter or radiation to permeate to the first of the confined areas from an adjacent, second of the confined areas to move the environmental condition in the first of the confined areas closer to the setpoint to compensate for the failure, automatically as a direct result of detection of the failure.