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
Environmental Protection Agency —April 5, 2022 Washington, DC – Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking action to protect people from asbestos exposure by releasing a proposed rule to prohibit ongoing uses of Chrysotile asbestos, the only known form of asbestos currently imported into the U.S. This proposed rule is the first-ever risk management
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
MT. LAUREL, NEW JERSEY [July 13, 2021] — The National Air Duct Cleaners Association (NADCA) — also known as the HVAC Inspection, Cleaning, and Restoration Association — today announces that its highly anticipated Fall Technical Conference will take place September 16-18 at the Hilton Charlotte University Place in Charlotte, North Carolina. NADCA’s Fall Technical Conference
by Allison Bailes — You know that old saying, “No good deed goes unpunished”? It applies to a lot of homes with respect to ventilation. If you simply bring outdoor air into the house, you pay for it…in more than one way. The outdoor air you bring in is unconditioned so you have to heat
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