By Bob Krell — Having just come off the road from a few of this year’s national industry events, the topic of mold testing came up multiple times—as usual. Many people vocalized their opinions on the pros and cons of the various sampling and analysis methodologies currently being used. Spore traps and mycotoxins got their
By Jeff May — from his August 2022 May’s Ways column in Healthy Indoors Magazine The sources of indoor air quality problems can be within the components of the building including mechanical systems, crawlspaces, and basements. Many IAQ problems, however, arise from what building occupants bring into a building envelope (what I call Trojan Horses).
Thursday July 28, 2022, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT (UTC -4) That’s the topic for this week’s Healthy Indoors LIVE Show when we welcome our guest, Bud Offermann. He recently gave a presentation on SPF at ISIAQ‘s Indoor Air 2022 in Kuopio, Finland. Bud Offermann has 35 years experience as an IAQ researcher, IAQ investigator,
By Carl Grimes — This is a true story. The names are not used to protect both the guilty and the innocent. I remember the details well because the events occurred over a 36-hour period just a day before I started writing this article. A couple I had been occasionally working with remotely texted me
By Allison Bailes III, Ph.D. — The DIY box fan air cleaner known as the Corsi-Rosenthal Box (or the Comparetto Cube, in a slight variation) has really taken off in the fight against COVID. I wrote about it here in September 2020, with instructions on how to make one yourself after I made my first
By Jeffrey C. May — When occupants experience specific symptoms inside a building and feel better when they are away from the building, and their symptoms are not caused by a specific illness, the building could be called a “sick building.” The symptoms that people experience in such a building can be called “sick building
By Jeffrey C. May– I’ve worked with many clients who spent thousands of dollars unnecessarily. In one situation, a woman was told that her basement was full of mold growth and that she should immediately move out of her house. She was given an estimate of about $3,000 to “de-mold” her basement. She moved into
The Healthy Schools Network is sponsoring a webinar this Thursday August 12th at 3:00 PM EDT (UTC -4) that will live stream simulcast on the Healthy Indoors Online Global Community. You can watch live during the event, or catch the recording after at: https://global.healthyindoors.com/c/school-iaq/schools-energy-savings-and-healthy-indoors-air Back to School Day of Action: Clean Air in Every School
The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers’ (CIBSE) offers a download page for their latest information on COVID-19 recommendations. Emerging from lock down is a series of documents available as free downloads below. These currently cover: Ventilation Air cleaning technologies (and Relative Exposure Index Calculator). Safely re-occupying buildings Recommissioning of lifts and escalators post lock
Healthy Indoors LIVE Show on July 29, 2021 with guest, Carl Grimes. The terrain of IAQ has not improved. If anything, it’s even more confusing and riskier for the clients. The necessity of guardrails is greater than ever. The need for parachutes is beginning. We discussed IAQ/IEQ from both the commercial/residential client’s perspective, as well
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