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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Indoor Sciences is a certified training provider of the Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA). We are announcing some new on-site training dates. We hope to see you when we come through town.
Certified Indoor Environmentalist (CIE)
Mar 23-24, Chicago, IL
May 11-12, Deerfield Beach, FL
June 22-23, Los Angeles, CA
July 19-20, Orlando, FL
Aug 17-18, Hartford, CT
Certified Microbial Investigator (CMI)
Mar 23-24, Chicago, IL
May 11-12, Deerfield Beach, FL
June 22-23, Los Angeles, CA
July 19-20, Orlando, FL
Aug 17-18, Hartford, CT
Certified Indoor Air Quality Manager (CIAQM)
July, Chicago (date to be announced)
Call us at (312) 920-9393 or click HERE for more information.
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
The Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA) will be holding its annual meeting in Tampa, Florida March 7-9. There will be technical sessions and a tradeshow that includes vendors from a wide array of products and services related to the indoor environment.
Indoor Sciences has a front row booth (#100) at the show. Please stop by and say hello! We have some new, innovative training products to share with you.
It’s not too late to sign up. Visit www.IAQA.org for more details.
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Each month, Indoor Sciences Inc. features an educational website that will expand the knowledge of green building and indoor air quality professionals. February 2010’s featured website is ASHRAE’s IAQ Guide.
There are some great organizations that we have never featured on IAQ Website of the Month, typically because they lack free content on their website. This month we can now highlight one of my favorite groups, thanks to an EPA grant.
The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) finally has some free IAQ content… and it was worth the wait.
In partnership with several other organizations, ASHRAE has written the “Indoor Air Quality Guide”. The guide is divided into two parts: Summary Guidance and Detailed Guidance. ASHRAE offers the 176 page Summary Guidance for free on their website. However, you’ll need to pay to access the Detailed Guidance. After paying $29 + $12.50 shipping, you’ll receive a bound hard copy of the Summary Guidance and a CD that includes both the Summary and the 527 page Detailed Guidance.
Getting the free Summary Guidance isn’t as easy as clicking on a link. You need to first register on this page: http://cms.ashrae.biz/iaqguide/. You’ll then receive an email with a link to download the PDF file. Be sure to save it somewhere on your computer that you will remember.
The Summary Guidance provides a great overview for designing commercial and institutional buildings with improved indoor air quality. The guide mostly targets design and construction issues, but there are some sections that apply to operation as well. If every architect had a copy of this guide, we would see a serious improvement to the indoor environment.
My favorite feature of the guide is the wonderful illustrations. Each of the 40 strategies includes a graphical guide that illustrates the key principle. I really liked these illustrations:
- Building pressurization on page 35
- Outdoor intake issues on page 59
- Typical commercial HVAC system on page 83
It is well worth the investment to purchase the Detailed Guidance. It includes more high quality graphics and content. It’s rare to be able to get such great a great reference book for under $30.
To visit this month’s featured website, click: ASHRAE’s IAQ Guide
To learn more about the indoor environment, please visit our section on training. If you would like to receive our free e-newsletter, just click: Sign Me Up.
Indoor Sciences, Inc.
105 West Madison Street
Suite 802
Chicago, IL 60602
ph. 312-920-9393
fax. 312-637-9393
www.IndoorSciences.com
Indoor Sciences, Inc. does not guarantee the accuracy of information on the featured website. The featured website does not endorse Indoor Sciences, Inc. nor is there a connection between the two organizations.
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Each month, Indoor Sciences Inc. features an educational website that will expand the knowledge of green building and indoor air quality professionals. January 2010’s featured website is EPA Base Website.
It is every IAQ consultant’s dream… being able to spend multiple days analyzing every detail that affects a building’s air quality. Ok, maybe that’s just my dream. Now imagine the data you would collect if you performed a detailed assessment on 100 randomly selected office buildings in 37 cities throughout the US.
With all that data, you would know baseline symptom rates and mean concentrations for IAQ contaminants. It would help you establish if the symptoms and concentrations in a problem building were beyond normal amounts.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s Building Assessment Survey and Evaluation (BASE) study provides this excellent information. The BASE study was conducted over a five year period from 1994-1998 in 100 buildings in cities with populations greater than 100,000 within 10 climatic regions.
You can find some general summaries of the data on the EPA BASE website. Here are some of the sections of the BASE website that I recommend:
If you really want to leverage the information, you can get the raw data in database format (.dba) from the EPA. Digging through the database is not for the faint of heart, but you will reap a better understanding of what is normal.
So next time a client asks, “Is that normal?”, you have the answer. “Let me check the EPA BASE data!”
To visit this month’s featured website, click EPA BASE Website.
To learn more about the indoor environment, please visit our section on training. If you would like to receive our free e-newsletter, just click: Sign Me Up.
Indoor Sciences, Inc.
105 West Madison Street
Suite 802
Chicago, IL 60602
ph. 312-920-9393
fax. 312-637-9393
www.IndoorSciences.com
Indoor Sciences, Inc. does not guarantee the accuracy of information on the featured website. The featured website does not endorse Indoor Sciences, Inc. nor is there a connection between the two organizations.
Friday, December 11th, 2009
Indoor Sciences is a certified training provider of the Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA). We are announcing some new on-site training dates. We hope to see you when we come through town.
Certified Indoor Environmentalist (CIE)
Jan 12-13, Tampa FL
Feb 8-9, Phoenix, AZ
Mar 22-23, Chicago, IL
May 11-12, Deerfield Beach, FL
June 22-23, Los Angeles, CA
Certified Microbial Investigator (CMI)
Jan 12-13, Tampa FL
Feb 8-9, Phoenix, AZ
Mar 22-23, Chicago, IL
May 11-12, Deerfield Beach, FL
June 22-23, Los Angeles, CA
Certified Indoor Air Quality Manager (CIAQM)
July, Chicago (date to be announced)
Call us at (312) 920-9393 or click HERE for more information.
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Indoor Sciences, Inc. announces the launch of a new online course that explains the fundamentals of heating, ventilating and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems. The course, “HVAC for the IAQ Professional“, is an eight-hour program that covers heating and cooling of both residential and commercial buildings. The course explains concepts such as filtration, ventilation, pressurization, moisture control, and hygiene.
The content in “HVAC for the IAQ Professional” is now included in our Certified Indoor Environmentalist (CIE) Course. For more information on the CIE course, please follow this link: Certified Indoor Environmentalist.
For more information on this new course, please follow this link: HVAC for the IAQ Professional. If you would like to register, please follow the above link or call our offices at (312) 920-9393.
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