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Present and Future of Indoor Air Quality: International Congress Proceedings (International congress series)

Understanding Indoor Air Quality (Telford Press) by Bradford O. Brooks, 1991-12-02

Pending indoor air quality and radon abatement legislation: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Regulation of the Committee on Environment ... on S. 656 ... and S. 657 ... May 25, 1993 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Regulation, 1993-01-01

H.R. 1066--Indoor Air Quality Act of 1991: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Environment of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House ... Second Congress, first session, May 9, 1991 by Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Environment., . United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, 1991-01-01

Indoor Air Quality Act of 1987: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Environmental Protection of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States ... session on S. 1629 ... November 20, 1987 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental Protection, 1988-01-01

Designing Healthy Buildings: Indoor Air Quality by Building Performance & Regulations Committee / Committee on the Environment. AIA, 1993

Evaluation on sampling point densities for assessing indoor air quality [An article from: Building and Environment] by K.W. Mui, L.T. Wong, et all 2006-11-01

A pilot study of the influence of residential HAC duty cycle on indoor air quality [An article from: Atmospheric Environment] by J.W. Thornburg, C.E. Rodes, et all 2004-04-01

Comparison of indoor and outdoor air quality at residential environment in Taiwan by experimeteral monitor [An article from: Journal of Aerosol Science] by Y.C. Huang, C.F. Chang, et all 2004-07-01

The effects of evaporating essential oils on indoor air quality [An article from: Atmospheric Environment] by H.J. Su, C.J. Chao, et all 2007-02-01

Evaluation on four sampling schemes for assessing indoor air quality [An article from: Building and Environment] by L.T. Wong, K.W. Mui, 2007-03-01

Indoor Air Quality Engineering: Environmental Health and Control of Indoor Pollutants (Drugs and the Pharmaceutical Sciences) by Robert Jennings Heinsohn, John M. Cimbala, 2003-01-15

Evaluation of health benefits for improving indoor air quality in workplace [An article from: Environment International] by C.K. Chau, W.K. Hui, et all 2007-02-01

Evaluation of professional choice of sampling locations for indoor air quality assessment [An article from: Building and Environment] by P.S. Hui, L.T. Wong, et all 2007-08-01

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Health House -- Raising The Standard For Home Environments
inexpensive, doit-yourself fixes for common home environment problems; the buildingscience, engineering, environmental health, indoor air quality, medical and
http://www.healthhouse.org/

Extractions: Castle or cottage, city or country, home is your sanctuary. It's a place to raise a family, entertain friends, live, and more often these days, work. Americans spend an average of 65 percent of their time at home, in what is usually viewed as a safe haven. However, growing evidence suggests that some homes may be detrimental to the health of their occupants, especially those with compromised lung function due to age, asthma, chemical sensitivities or other respiratory conditions. Home pollutants such as dust mites, animal related allergens (dander and saliva) and mold are known asthma triggers, while high accumulations of carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, and radon in inadequately ventilated homes are serious health hazards. The media regularly report on families experiencing deteriorating health due to the presence of mold in their sealed-tight houses.
Health House - Indoor Air Quality
The environmental Protection Agency lists poor indoor air quality as the fourthlargest Learning how to control a homes environment to reduce allergen
http://www.healthhouse.org/iaq/default.htm

Extractions: The air quality of our indoor environments effects our health and often contributes to structural degradation and building failures within our homes. According to the American Lung Association of Minnesota, elements within our home and workplaces have been increasingly recognized as threats to our respiratory health. The most common pollutants are radon, combustion products, biologicals (molds, pet dander, pollen), volatile organic compounds, lead dust and asbestos. The Environmental Protection Agency lists poor indoor air quality as the fourth largest environmental threat to our country. The prevalence rate of pediatric asthma has increased from 40.1 to 69.1, a 72.3 percent increase. Asthma is the sixth ranking chronic condition in our nation and the leading serious chronic illness of children in the U.S. In the house, poor indoor air quality can result in structural rot within the walls and attic and around window framing from excess moisture.
Air Pollution Control Division At The Colorado Department Of Public Health And E
Department Home About the Department Certificates environment Health News Asbestos Control and Compliance; indoor air quality; LeadBased Paint
http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/ap/aphom.asp

Extractions: Many files on this site are available to download in Adobe Acrobat format. For a free copy of Acrobat Reader: Organizational Programs Services for Business and Industry Services for Motorists and the Auto Service/Repair Industry Services for Communities and Municipalities Studies, Reports and Documents for Review Early Action Compact for Ozone, Denver area
Colorado Indoor Air Quality Program
The Colorado Department of Public Health and environment's air Pollution ControlDivision recognizes indoor air quality (IAQ) as a growing public concern.
http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/ap/IAQhom.asp

Extractions: E-mail: IAQ@state.co.us The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's Air Pollution Control Division recognizes Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) as a growing public concern. Currently, there are no regulations directly addressing non-occupational indoor air quality in Colorado. Most other states and the Environmental Protection Agency also do not have regulations for non-occupational indoor air quality. The division is working to develop guidelines and would welcome input from the public. You may e-mail questions and comments to any of the links below. Three members of the division have extensive backgrounds in IAQ investigation and are available to answer questions. Steve Fine Paula Ross and Laura Shumpert may be contacted by e-mail or phone. Please put IAQ in the subject line so that we may more readily identify your e-mails. You may also check with your county health departments for individuals who are knowledgeable about IAQ concerns. Poor indoor air quality can be a serious health risk, and Americans should take the appropriate steps to protect themselves and their families, according to air quality and respiratory health experts. Most people spend as much as 90 percent of their time indoors; air quality conditions in homes, schools, and the workplace can greatly affect morale, productivity, and health.
Environment, Health And Safety: Workplace Health And Safety
programs center on six areas Ergonomics indoor air quality Emergency Response everythingin an employee's physical workspace environment posture while seated
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/ehs/ehs-workplace_health.html

Extractions: Building Codes Sun's ergonomics program is one of the most elaborate such programs in the industry, and encompasses everything in an employee's physical workspace environment - posture while seated, rest and exercise breaks, proper use of the computer keyboard and mouse, and even lighting and furniture. The following programs are available at all Sun's U.S.-based sites: Employees can try out chairs in ergonomic demo rooms at various Sun campuses. And all Sun employees can initiate a one-to-one ergonomic evaluation by logging into Factool, an online utility. Evaluation personnel then schedule an office visit, where they provide a 20- to 40-minute evaluation to determine any necessary behavioral changes, training and equipment such as ergonomic chairs, wrist rests and glare screens. The employee can then use Factool to order recommended equipment. Far from a resource drain, Sun's ergonomics program has significantly decreased the cost per worker's compensation claim by minimizing the severity of many injuries. The total number of workplace claims costs have likewise significantly decreased.
BFRL: Building Environment Division
George E. Kelly, Chief Building environment Division (301) 9755851,george.kelly@nist.gov. indoor air quality and Ventilation Group.
http://www.bfrl.nist.gov/863/bed.html

Extractions: The Building Environment Division reduces the cost of designing and operating buildings and increases the international competitiveness of the U.S. building industry by providing modeling, measurement, and test methods needed to use advanced computation and automation effectively in construction, to improve the quality of the indoor environment, and to improve the performance of building equipment and systems. The Building Environment Division conducts laboratory, field, and analytical research on building mechanical and control systems; develops data, measurement methods and modeling techniques for the performance of the building envelope, its insulation systems, building air leakage, and the release, movement and absorption of indoor air pollutants, and develops standard communication protocols for building management systems and performance criteria, interface standards, and test methods for the Nation's building industry to make effective use of modern computer-aided design hardware and software and database management systems. The Building Environment Division began a Green Building Research and Demonstration Program in 1994. As part of that program, grants were given to
BFRL: Indoor Air Quality And Ventilation Group
Building environment Division. indoor air quality and Ventilation.The Group develops computer simulation programs and measurement
http://www.bfrl.nist.gov/863/iaq.html

Extractions: The Group develops computer simulation programs and measurement procedures and applies them to better understand the phenomena of air and contaminant transport in buildings and to support industry efforts to improve environmental conditions in buildings in a cost-effective manner. The results of this research are providing reliable methods and to evaluate ventilation characteristics and indoor pollutant concentrations in buildings. The modeling efforts include the development and application of multizone airflow and indoor air quality models, specifically the CONTAM series which predicts airflows and contaminant concentrations in multizone building systems. CONTAM is based on a graphic interface that allows the user to draw floor plans on a "sketchpad" and employ "icons" to represent airflow paths, ventilation system components, and contaminant sources. CONTAM has been used at NIST to study the indoor air quality impacts of HVAC systems in single-family residential buildings, ventilation in large mechanically-ventilated office buildings, and radon entry and transport in large residential, office, and school buildings. Measurement procedures are being developed and demonstrated to evaluate building ventilation and indoor pollutant concentrations. These procedures range from sophisticated tracer gas methods used predominantly in building research efforts to less involved procedures that can be employed by building operators. NIST researchers are continually developing new test procedures, and then demonstrating them in the field to evaluate their feasibility and reliability. The efforts in which these procedures are demonstrated in the field has resulted in the development of an important database of building ventilation and indoor air quality performance.
E H I B - C U R R E N T . T O P I C S
from Health environment Digest Vol 10, No. 2, pages 912, May/June 1996.Fungi indoor air quality. Sandra V. McNeel, DVM. Richard A. Kreutzer, MD.
http://www.dhs.cahwnet.gov/ehib/ehib2/topics/fungi_indoor.html

Extractions: Sandra V. McNeel, DVM Richard A. Kreutzer, MD California Department of Health Services Environmental Health Investigations Branch Introduction Molds in Indoor Air Fungi are ubiquitous organisms that make up approximately 25% of earth's biomass. They can be subdivided somewhat artificially by gross morphology into yeasts, mushrooms and molds - the fungi of most importance for indoor air. Molds are very adaptable and can colonize dead and decaying organic matter (e.g. textiles, leather, wood, paper) and even damp, inorganic material (e.g. glass, painted surfaces, bare concrete) if organic nutrients such as dust or soil particles are available. Because various genera grow and reproduce at different substrate water concentrations and temperatures, molds occur in a wide range of habitats. Constituents of indoor air are determined by both outdoor and indoor sources (Table 1). Likewise mold types and concentrations indoors are primarily a function of outdoor fungi and substrate water (related to indoor humidity level). Higher concentrations of outdoor molds and other fungi occur where trees, shrubs and landscape irrigation occur close to exterior building walls. (While most indoor molds originate from exterior sources, some species of Aspergillus and Penicillium can grow and reproduce effectively indoors and are commonly found in air samples of normal, "dry" buildings.)
Environmental Building News - Carpeting, Indoor Air Quality, And The Environment
Carpeting, indoor air quality, and the environment.From EBN Volume 3, No. 6 November/December 1994.
http://www.buildinggreen.com/features/crpt/carpets.html

Extractions: Carpeting has become ubiquitous in North America, covering more floors in homes, businesses, and institutions than all other floorcoverings combined. We love it for its softness, dirt-hiding ability, acoustic muffling, and low cost. Recently, however, carpets have come under fire for their potential role in indoor air quality problems, and they've been questioned for their typically short service life. Carpets have come to have two strongly contrasting images in our culture: they represent the warmth and comfort of home, but also the worst of our fossil-fuel based, disposable society. Carpets have been gradually increasing their share of the floorcovering world for the last few decades. Once a luxury reserved for the very rich, carpets and rugs now cover 70% of the floors in the United States. In 1993 Americans purchased 5.5 square yards of carpet per person, or nearly 1.5 billion square yards totalenough to cover nearly 40% of Rhode Island. Between 1960 and 1993, carpet purchases grew by 654%, while the average cost of carpets in real dollars dropped dramatically. Cheap fossil fuels and mass production have made very inexpensive carpet possible. Our look at carpets addresses the indoor air quality (IAQ) concerns and also some broader environmental questions.
BuildingGreen.com - Indoor Environment Bibliography
Household A complete guide for creating a healthy indoor environment by Lynn Marie Priceybut packed with news and information relating to indoor air quality.
http://www.buildinggreen.com/biblio/indoor.html

Extractions: by Tom Bender, 2000 paperback, Fire River Press, $28 From a leading practitioner of energy-efficient and ecological building comes this treatise on working with the more subtle energies of a site, a building, and their many inhabitants. Not for everyone, perhaps, but a real gem for those inclined toward such an approach. This is a sequel to Silence, Song and Shadows, reviewed in EBN Vol. 9 No. 3. Commissioning Buildings in Hot, Humid Climates: Design and Construction Guidelines Editors: J. David Odom, George DuBose, 1997 spiral-bound, CH2M HILL, $69 A good overview of moisture-related indoor air quality problems typical of humid climates, and how to prevent them through peer-review of designs and commissioning. Based on experience in the early 1990s with the Disney Corporation. Order by check only. Reviewed in EBN Vol. 9 No. 3
NASA WSTF Crew Environment/Indoor Air Quality
Crew environment and indoor air quality. White Sands Test Facility(WSTF) Molecular Desorption and Analysis Laboratory (MDAL) has
http://www.wstf.nasa.gov/Chem/Crew.htm
Niosh/fact Sheet/ Indoor Environmental Quality
indoor air quality and Sick Building Syndrome. indoor air quality, as the nameimplies, simply refers to the quality of the air in an office environment.
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ieqfs.html

Extractions: INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (IEQ) June 1997 During the last 20 years, concerns associated with the quality of the indoor office environment have escalated in the American workplace. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has seen the number of request for the Institute's assistance rise dramatically, as public concern about this problem continues to increase. What is Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ)? The public is probably more familiar with the terms "Indoor Air Quality" and "Sick Building Syndrome." "Indoor Air Quality," as the name implies, simply refers to the quality of the air in an office environment. "Sick Building Syndrome" is a term many people use to convey a wide range of symptoms they believe can be attributed to the building itself. Workers typically implicate the workplace environment because their symptoms are alleviated when they leave the office. NIOSH prefers to use the term "Indoor Environmental Quality" (or IEQ) to describe the problems occurring in office buildings and schools throughout the nation. The Institute, through its Health Hazard Evaluation (HHE) Program , evaluates potential health hazards in workplaces in response to requests from employers, employees, employee representatives, state and local government agencies, and Federal agencies. NIOSH investigators have found that concerns about air quality may be caused by a number of factors, encompassing much more than air contamination. Other factors such as comfort, noise, lighting, ergonomic stressors (poorly designed work stations and tasks) and jobrelated psychosocial stressors can individually and in combination contribute to complaints. Hence, IEQ more accurately describes the scope of the problem.
Industrial Hygiene / Indoor Air : Risk Management Internet Services Library (rmi
Providing paid subscribers with a directory of indoor air quality materials on subjects including Category Science environment air quality indoor air quality indoor air quality 8547 Full text of the guidelines for conducting an indoor airquality investigation Molds in the environment 5999 Recommendations for
http://www.rmis.com/sites/indindoo.htm
Indoor Air Quality Resources
Research Technology Berkley indoor environment Program. Associations Institutesair quality American Association for Respiratory Care American indoor air
http://www.environ.com/iaq_resource_pages/iaqresourcemain.asp?b=i4
Ask NOAH About: Environmental Health
New York Online Access to Health directories provide links to consumer health information on various Category Science environment environmental Health Directories Resources The environmental Law Institute environment Australia Online Technical/ProfessionalResources Asbestos indoor air quality Lead Recycling Secondhand
http://www.noah-health.org/english/illness/environment/environ.html
CEC Consultants, Inc.
Introduction to IAQ and sick building syndrome.Category Science environment air quality indoor air quality in the indoor air environment may substantially increase employee morale and productivity.Therefore, it is important to include indoor air quality controls in
http://www.cec-consultants.com/ventilate/iaqfaqs.htm

Extractions: "Indoor Air Quality" and "Sick Building Syndrome" are hot new catch phrases in today's lawsuit-crazy society. Problems with indoor air quality in your building could lead to a host of problems, including complaints from angry and frustrated building occupants; missed time, and lost productivity from employees; violation of government safety regulations; embarrassing publicity; and, yes, lawsuits! CEC Consultants' IAQ FAQ's can help get you up the IAQ Learning Curve. Got more questions? Call us at: (216) 749-2992. What is indoor air quality? How does indoor air quality deteriorate? What is SBS and BRI? How common are indoor air quality related problems? ... How do I resolve indoor air quality problems? 1. What is indoor air quality? Understanding indoor air quality first requires a basic knowledge of ventilation. Ventilation is a combination of processes which results in the supply and removal of air from inside a building. These processes typically include: Bringing in outdoor air Conditioning and mixing the outdoor air with some portion of indoor air Distributing this mixed air throughout the building, and
DEA350: Human Factors - Ambient Environment, Spring 2003
Spring 2003. Date CONTENT. 1/21 Course overview Human Factors and the AmbientEnvironment. air quality AND VENTILATION Readings indoor air quality.
http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/AHSyllabi/DEA3502003.html

Extractions: Human Factors in Engineering and Design , 7th Ed., New York, McGraw-Hill DEA350 Indoor Air Quality Readings Course Packet (available from campus store) Course Description Human factors aspects of ambient conditions in indoor environments are addressed. Emphasis is placed on understanding both key concepts and measurement techniques. Coverage includes thermal conditions, ventilation and air quality issues, lighting, and acoustics as these affect the quality of the indoor spaces in which we live and work. Course Objectives This course aims to familiarize students with the human factors information necessary for creating good indoor ambient environmental conditions. Upon completion of this course the student should understand:
EPA Healthy School Environments - Indoor Air Quality
indoor environment Management Branch Pollution Prevention Our strategy is toapply IEMB's expertise in indoor air quality (ie, source characterization
http://cfpub.epa.gov/schools/top_sub.cfm?t_id=41&s_id=4
EPA Healthy School Environments - Indoor Air Quality
carry out a practical plan of action to improve indoor air quality at little providemore money for the classroom, a better learning environment, and increased
http://cfpub.epa.gov/schools/top_sub.cfm?t_id=45&s_id=4
Indoor Purification Systems Electronic Air Purifiers And Air Cleaners
Supplies ozone and negative ion products for home as well as negative ion systems for automotive use .Category Shopping Home and Garden Climate Control air Cleaners Worsening indoor air quality linked to increases in asthma and allergy problems. ;Asthma Allergy Checklist 27 tips for controlling your environment.
http://www.indoorpurifiers.com/

Extractions: Electronic Air Purifiers that are Guaranteed to help you breathe better, or your money back! Air Purification Products Air Cleaner Buying Guide Contact Us "Controlling Breathing Problems . . . Asthma and other breathing problems are rising at an alarming rate, despite substantial medication improvements and increased use of HEPA air filters . The truth is, indoor air quality is worse than ever, and has emerged as the nation's worst environmental health problem (according to the EPA). On this website, you'll learn more about: . . . by Controlling Indoor Air Quality." Electronic Air Purifier Buying Guide

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