Assessments
Goal: Gather thorough information during IAQ assessments by asking crucial questions and reviewing key documents.
Lesson 1: Assessment Overview
Objective – Describe the 5 steps of a methodical IAQ assessment:
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Goal: Enable students to make important observations indoors, outdoors, and in the HVAC system when performing IAQ assessments.
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Goal: Understand how to confidently measure temperature and humidity, and interpret the results based on industry standards.
Lesson 1: Instrumentation
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Goal: Understand how to assess whether the ventilation and/or pressurization is contributing to any indoor air quality problems.
Lesson 1: Assessing Ventilation
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Goal: Understand how to use equipment correctly to identify moisture sources and determine the extent of any moisture problems.
Lesson 1: Moisture Meters
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Goal: Understand the role that sampling plays in the assessment process. Another goal is to clearly communicate the assessment process through a written report.
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Building Science
Goal: Understand the relationship between dry air & water and explain its impact on indoor air quality.
Lesson 1: Air, Water, Energy
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Goal: Calculate the common properties of moist air using the psychrometric chart. Another goal is to use these calculated properties to help identify potential indoor air quality problems.
Lesson 1: Chart Basics
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Goal: Identify where and why liquid water can enter a building and solve problems related to water intrusion.
Lesson 1: From Above
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Goal: Understand how water vapor can enter indoors via diffusion & infiltration and cause indoor air quality problems.
Lesson 1: Vapor Diffusion
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The Fundamentals of IAQ Contaminants
Goal: Understand the fundamentals of mold and how it affects the indoor air quality.
Lesson 1: The Fundamentals
Objective – Classify mold, describe its main components and identify its requirements for growth.
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Goal: Understand the role of bacteria in human health and indoor air quality.
Lesson 1: The Fundamentals
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Goal: Understand what viruses are, how they affect health and what we can do to reduce their transmission.
Lesson 1: The Fundamentals
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Goal: Understand the allergens that trigger allergic disease, and how to control their presence indoors.
Lesson 1: Health Effects
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Goal: Identify key sources of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and understand how to control them.
Lesson 1: The Fundamentals
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Goal: Understand where radon comes from, how it enters indoors, and what health effects it causes.
Lesson 1: Chemistry
Objective – Describe what radon is and what makes it unique among radioactive decay products.
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Goal: Understand the fundamentals of carbon monoxide in order to identify its sources in buildings and notice its common symptoms.
Lesson 1: The Fundamentals
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Goal: Understand the important indoor air quality contaminants of environmental tobacco smoke, asbestos, lead, ozone, and particulate matter.
Lesson 1: ETS
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HVAC
Goal: Understand common residential HVAC systems and their effect on indoor air quality.
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Goal: Become familiar with different types of HVAC equipment and systems and understand how they affect indoor air quality.
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Goal: Select the right media filter based on understanding media filter mechanisms, properties, and efficiencies
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Goal: Understand how electronic and gas phase air cleaning can be a part of a strategy to improve the indoor air quality.
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Goal: Understand the benefits of ventilation and to identify the different equipment and controls associated with common methods of ventilating.
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Goal: Become familiar with commercial and residential ventilation standards from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).
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Goal: Understand how HVAC equipment design and operation can maintain a target relative humidity.
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Goal: Understand the critical areas of the HVAC system that must be inspected, cleaned and maintained to ensure good indoor air quality.
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IAQ Overview
Goal: Understand the key, fundamental concepts of indoor air quality and identify the root causes of IAQ problems and their solutions.
Lesson 1: Definitions
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Goal: Understand the key ways in which indoor air quality affects human health.
Lesson 1: Categories of Health Effects
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Goal: Understand the concepts of sick building syndrome and building related illness, and both symptoms and illnesses that may occur due to time spent in buildings.
Lesson 1: Sick Building Syndrome
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Goal: Understand practical steps to prevent indoor air quality problems. This course focuses on healthier alternatives to traditional cleaning, redecorating, and pest management.
Lesson 1: Cleaning
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Goal: Understand how to better operate and maintain buildings to ultimately prevent indoor air quality problems from happening.
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Goal: Develop an indoor air quality management plan for a building that will ensure a healthy, comfortable, and productive indoor environment.
Lesson 1: Top Management
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Goal: Implement a complaint response system to better collect, log, and respond to IAQ issues that may come up.
Lesson 1: Complaint Collection
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Goal: Become familiar with the many different types of guidance documents and implement them in the student field of practice.
Lesson 1: Regulations
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Goal: Become familiar with exposure guidelines and know when, where, why, and how to apply them.
Lesson 1: Non-cancer, Non-chronic
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Mold Remediation
Goal: Learn the fundamentals of mold remediation and become familiar with important guidance documents that will help standardize the work.
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Goal: Understand the role personal protective equipment plays in reducing exposure to mold during remediation activities.
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Goal: Design remediation projects that protect workers, occupants, and the surrounding uncontaminated areas.
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Goal: Understand how to clean and replace mold damaged materials, learn which materials can be cleaned, and which need to be replaced in order to remove the mold contamination.
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Goal: Know when, why, and how to apply antimicrobial pesticides and/or antimicrobial coatings on mold remediation projects.
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Goal: Develop a remediation plan and verify that a remediation project has been successfully completed.
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Sampling IAQ Contaminants
Goal: Enable students to collect viable and spore trap air samples for mold, and to understand the advantages and disadvantages of each method.
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Goal: Understand how to develop a sampling plan and interpretation strategy for which students understand the limitations.
Lesson 1: Limitations
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Goal: Understand how to utilize surface sampling to confirm mold growth, identify mold type, or quantify surface cleanliness.
Lesson 1: Tape Lift
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Goal: Enable students to collect bulk and dust samples for mold. It is also our goal for students to understand the situations that are best suited for the collection of bulk, dust, mVOC, and mycotoxin samples.
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Goal: Know when, where, why, and how to sample for bacteria.
Lesson 1: Air
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Goal: Enable students to collect samples for common allergens and determine if the results are elevated based on guidelines.
Lesson 1: Air Sampling
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Goal: Understand how to measure particles with direct-read instruments and laboratory-based methods when particle identification is needed.
Lesson 1: Direct-Read
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Goal: Understand how to establish a sampling plan for volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which may involve the use of direct-read instruments and/or laboratory-based methods.
Lesson 1: Direct-Read
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Goal: Understand how to assess and measure carbon monoxide under normal and worst case conditions as part of an initial IAQ assessment.
Lesson 1: Assessments
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Webinars
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Jeremy Beagle, Senior Building Scientist at SDII Global Corporation
Original live broadcast date: December 14, 2017
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Presented by Henry Slack
Original live broadcast date: November 30, 2016
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Presented by Dr. Alice Delia, Laboratory Director with Prism Analytical Technologies
Original live broadcast date: March 23, 2016
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Dr. Alice Delia, Laboratory Director at Prism Analytical Technologies
Original live broadcast date: April 12, 2018
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Kevin Kennedy, Director of the Environmental Health Program in the Section of Toxicology and Environmental Health at Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics
Original live broadcast date: May 18, 2017
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Kevin Kennedy, Director of the Environmental Health Program in the Section of Toxicology and Environmental Health at Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics
Original live broadcast date: July 20, 2017
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Kevin Kennedy, Director of the Environmental Health Program in the Section of Toxicology and Environmental Health at Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics
Original live broadcast date: October 19, 2017
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Presented by Bruce White, Vice President of American Environmental Specialists
Original live broadcast date: February 16, 2017
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Presented by Joseph “Radio Joe” Hughes, President of IAQ Training Institute, LLC
Original live broadcast date: September 15, 2016
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JJ Jenkins, CEO and Lead Trainer for the Construction Infection Control Training Institute
Original live broadcast date: August 30, 2018
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Presented by Lan Chi Nguyen Weekes, P.Eng. and partner with InAIR Environmental Ltd. and Donald M. Weekes, CIH, CSP, and partner with InAIR Environmental Ltd.
Original live broadcast date: April 27, 2016
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Presented by Dr. Joe Spurgeon, Bayshore Environmental
Original live broadcast date: May 18, 2016
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John and Lydia Lapotaire, Indoor Air Quality Solutions
Original live broadcast date: April 13, 2017
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Dr. W. Elliott Horner, Lead Scientist for UL Environment and LEED-AP
Original live broadcast date: February 15, 2018
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David Pariseau and Thomas Grillo, Particles Plus
Original live broadcast date: June 22, 2017
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Jeffrey C. May, Principal Scientist at May Indoor Air Investigation, LLC
Original live broadcast date: August 17, 2017
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Neal Walsh, Sr. Vice President of Strategy and Commercial Sales for Aeroseal, LLC
Chris Aiple, Director of Operations for Service-Tech Corporation
Original live broadcast date: November 16, 2017
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John Lapotaire, Florida Licensed Mold Assessor, Certified Indoor Environmental Consultant, Owner/Operator of Indoor Air Quality Solutions
Original live broadcast date: January 11, 2018
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Presented by Shawn Price, Market Development Manager at Spruce Environmental Technologies
Original live broadcast date: October 19, 2016
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Presented by Dr. Wei Tang, Laboratory Director at QLAB
Original live broadcast date: August 24, 2016
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Presented by Dr. Joe Spurgeon, Owner of Bayshore Environmental, Inc.
Original live broadcast date: December 15, 2016
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Peter Maguire, Vice President of System Applications for Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions
Original live broadcast date: May 17, 2018
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Presented by Dr. Alice Delia, Laboratory Director at Prism Analytical Technologies
Original live broadcast date: November 9, 2016
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Presented by Derrick Denis, Vice President of Indoor Environmental Quality for Clark Seif Clark
Original live broadcast date: July 14, 2016
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Adele is an attorney, safety professional and trainer who is president of the Law Office of Adele L. Abrams P.C. in Beltsville, MD, Charleston, WV, and Denver, CO, a multi-attorney firm focusing on safety, health and employment law nationwide.
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Webinar Description:
The webinar will provide an overview of indoor allergen exposure assessment methods and health effects of indoor allergen exposure.
Presenter Bio:
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Join the Allied Industry Partners (AIP) for an informative discussion covering COVID-19.
Join us as we dive into the union of IAQ and Indoor agricultural farming.
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Our presenter, Cole Stanton, will celebrate 27 years with the company (ICP - Innovative Chemical Products) and a career in environmental professions this month (May 2021).
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Annual Meeting 2020
Sarah Mack, Prism Analytical Technologies
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Albert Baerren, AB Indoor Environments
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Bill Nicoll, American Mold Experts
Julie Hurst-Nicoll, American Mold Experts
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Steve Levy, Certified Mold Inspections, Inc.
Mark Levy, The Mold Guy, Inc.
Overall Objectives:
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IAQA 2020 Annual Meeting Opening Keynote Address.
"Evolving the Indoor Environmental Industry" Presented by Bob Krell, Healthy Indoors Magazine
Daryl Aiken, Pinchin Ltd.
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Scott Sumner, Environmental Solutions Group
Daniel Whittaker, Environmental Solutions Group
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Stephen Booth, Pinchin Ltd.
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John Lapotaire, Indoor Air Quality Solutions, IAQS
Lydia Lapotaire, Indoor Air Quality Solutions, IAQS
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IAQA 2020 Annual Meeting Emerging Issues Panel
Presented by:
Ian Cull, Indoor Sciences
David Muise, Pinchin Ltd.
Michael Pinto, Wonder Makers Environmental
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Stanley Yeskolski, Investigative Inspection Services, Inc.
In the IAQ and remediation industry, diagnosing moisture problems and measuring moisture conditions are critical requirements of our profession.
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Brian Karr, The Mold Guy Inc
Michael Rubino, All American Restoration Corp
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Ian Cull, Indoor Sciences
Rachel Reboulet, Inspirotec Inc
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Ching-Yi Tsai, Prestige EnviroMicrobiology
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Greg Weatherman, aerobioLogical Solutions, Inc.
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Peter Shelling, Progressive Insurance American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP)
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Shavaun Cotter, Partner Engineering & Science
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Scott Laughlin, UL Environment and Sustainability
W. Elliott Horner, UL Environment and Sustainability
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Rajiv Sahay, Pure Air Control Services, Inc.
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Michael Meyer, Mold Testing Services, LLC
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Lisa Rogers, Mycometer, Inc.
Morten Reeslev, Mycometer, Inc.
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Suzi Rosen, Partner Engineering & Science
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Ralph Moon, GHD Services Inc.
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John Mitchell, Secrest Wardle
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Elizabeth Seebaran, ROSE Environmental Limited
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Karen Meyer, Partner Engineering & Science
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Carl Grimes, Hayward Healthy Home Institute
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John Lapotaire, Indoor Air Quality Solutions, IAQS
Lydia Lapotaire, Indoor Air Quality Solutions, IAQS
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Donald Weekes, InAIR Environmental, Ltd.
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William Vaughan, Nauset Environmental Services, Inc.
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Steven Rucker, Ecostratum
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Annual Meeting 2021
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Annual Meeting 2022
Historically, Legionella bacteria exposure and development of legionnaires’ disease has been associated mainly with aerosolized water from cooling towers. In fact, the seminal event in the discovery of this disease occurred at the Philadelphia Bellevu
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A total of 2,058 wet wipe samples were collected from 343 houses in northern California that were potentially impacted by one of 22 wildfires. The samples were analyzed for char, ash and soot.
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Occupant related complaints have led to a rise in SPF insulation investigations.
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IAQ has been an important safeguard for building owners and organizations to identify and mitigate unhealthy indoor conditions.
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As an IAQ professional, have you been frustrated by the mold claims of a “crazy” person? The current medical data explains that the percentage of the population with genetic predisposition to mild mold sensitivity is nearly 20%.
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Let’s explore how testing during and after new construction helps prevent large scale moisture and IAQ related issues.
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ARE YOU PROPERLY ASSESSING RISK WHEN THE CALL COMES IN?
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Spray foam insulation (SPF) installation frequently results in odor complaints by the tenants of the home or building where the installation occurred. When the installation is performed properly with mixing the proper ratios of Side A (isocyanate) and
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A few decades ago an ISO standard emerged for airborne particulate counters used in the clean manufacturing industry. ISO 21501-4 was created in direct response to industry complaints regarding the lack of accuracy or repeatability that existed with
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Let’s explore how testing during and after new construction helps prevent large scale moisture and IAQ related issues.
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In the age of CoVID and extreme weather damage, massive building rehabilitation efforts have catalyzed the deployment of a new generation of indoor air quality (IAQ) sensors that will undoubtedly affect the industrial hygiene sector. The technology em
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The content of the presentation focuses on the technologies used to address the Indoor Air Quality challenges our world has presented. Just like Legionnaires disease brought tankless storage and new technologies to water treatment, many new technologi
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The Future of Design for IAQ is aimed to discuss and present on the current status quo of indoor air quality. With hundreds of products popping up overnight, the industry seems to be flooded with information from each manufacturer.
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As an indoor mold consultant, the author has encountered many mold misperceptions.
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More and more individuals are being diagnosed with elevated sensitivities to various indoor contaminants (Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome or CIRS, to name one controversial, but often encountered example).
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In 2020, the New Jersey Department of Health released updated guidelines on evaluation and management of mercury-containing floors in schools.
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Fredi Lajvardi’s story captured the nation’s attention when his team of undocumented Hispanic youth channeled their inner spirit of drive, ingenuity, and creativity to beat the odds and become an unstoppable force in the field of S.T.E.M.
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A brief presentation on the InstaScope - a machine that uses UV light to get real-time data on airborne mold spore counts - from a mold remediator's perspective.
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Ask the Experts panel featuring the following IAQ experts:
Jeremy Beagle
Ian Cull
Derrick Denis
John Lapotaire
COVID-19 has brought to light the importance of Indoor Air Quality (IAQ). When looking at IAQ technology within a “modern” building a lot is missing.
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In an effort to fully assess a home with an indoor air quality complaint we feel it is best to measure the homes basic indoor environmental conditions. These include the temperature, humidity, airborne particulates, formaldehyde, carbon dioxide, and v
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This presentation will discuss the basics regarding radon pathways into buildings and the long-term health impacts due to exposure. The main focus of the presentation will discuss radon resistant new construction techniques including the main purpose,
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This presentation will provide an overview of assessment issues and sampling strategies in fire damaged buildings. The objective is to provide an understanding of the multiple problems fire/combustion creates for a building structure.
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Presented by: Scott Vogel
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You've passed the target compounds required for the Green Building IEQ credit but went over on the TVOC. We will review the most common culprits for pushing a TVOC value outside of the acceptable limits.
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Utilizing ultraviolet (UV) light to treat our buildings’ conditioned air is becoming more common, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. But is that always a good thing?
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This presentation will talk about some case studies on building design and constructions where build it tight and did not ventilate it right had caused sweating/condensation leading to mould growth.
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The forensic investigation of water damaged building materials during insurance discovery can mischaracterize the extent of reported water damage and assign visual or uncovered damage to the insurance claim which may have been pre-existing or unrelated
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This session is intended to provide insights into determining the origin and cause of wood floor failures associated with a concrete slab installation.
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Several simple energy efficiency building techniques can be implemented that can improve IAQ.
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Mold and lead can be a toxic combination during remediation works. Moisture and mold growth, if left unaddressed for an extended period of time, can cause the paint to bubble on walls and ceilings.
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Dusts are ubiquitous and can be generated both indoors and outdoors from many sources, including human/animal activities, construction and combustion.
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Indoor air quality is a contributing factor to overall health and well-being.
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The built environment today is being challenged more than ever to offer solutions which provide for a healthy and energy efficient space for occupants with the ability to monitor and track successful outcomes.
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Meeting of the Membership at the IAQA 2022 Annual Meeting & Expo in Tucson, AZ.