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Topic: 'Pollutants'

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• Renovation

  School Renovation and Repairs Checklist

  When renovating or remodeling, extra precaution should be taken to ensure the safety of students and staff. Here's how to do so before, during, and after renovation.
• Renovation

  Background Information for School Renovation and Repairs Checklist

  Here's the details on how to keep students and staff safe when renovating and remodeling.
• Walk Through

  Background Information for Walkthrough Inspection Checklist

  How to go about a simple school walkthrough inspection and what potential IAQ problems to be on the lookout for.
• Indoor Air Quality

  Diagnosing and Solving IAQ Problems: Basic Measurement Techniques

  Recommended techniques and tools to measure for adequate airflow, lighting, and thermal comfort - relative humidity and temperature.
• Indoor Air Quality

  Diagnosing and Solving IAQ Problems: What are the Symptoms?

  Evaluating the symptoms can help narrow down possible causes and can help you determine what checks need to be done.
• Hospital

  Diagnosing and Solving IAQ Problems: Where and When Do the Problems Occur?

  Determining where and when problems occur, and by which individuals, can help management determine the source of the indoor air quality problem.
• Mold

  Preventing Mold Related Problems in the Indoor Workplace

  OSHA guide to preventing mold, mold sources, and building-related illnesses.
• Healthy Schools

  Environmental Management for High Performance Schools

  Without a long-term commitment to comprehensive environmental management, not even the best high performance school can hope to stay high performing for very long.
• Schools

  School Walk-Throughs Take a Commonsense Approach

  Walk-throughs are a practical learning experience for staff that builds awareness, confidence and skills – essential elements of a sustainable IAQ program.
• Indoor Environment

  Safer Alternatives to Toxic Chemicals Needed to Protect Workers and Communities

  Hazardous chemicals and products are made and used in the greatest quantities in workplaces — where they first expose workers.
• CO2 Levels

  Why Measure Carbon Dioxide Inside Buildings?

  Current technology allows easy and relatively inexpensive measurement of carbon dioxide (CO2 ) as an indicator to help ensure ventilation systems (for high density occupancy zones) are delivering the recommended minimum quantities of outside air to the building’s occupants.
• Indoor Air Quality

  Four Elements of IAQ Problems

  Four elements - sources, the HVAC system, pollutant pathways, and occupants - are involved in the development of IAQ problems.
• Carpet Cleaning

  Health Benefits of Carpet Maintenance

  There is a widespread perception that carpet cannot be kept clean (sanitary) and that because of its inability to be kept clean, carpet contributes significantly to the deterioration of indoor environmental quality, especially leading to unhealthy indoor air quality. This unnecessary misconception often leads to policy decisions for removing carpet from many environments such as schools, health care facilities, and public agencies.
• Indoor Air Quality

  IAQ Basics

  There are many factors that can affect IAQ, such as human activity within the building, the building’s construction materials, and the types of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems in a building.
• Integrated Cleaning And Measurement

  Development of An Optimal Cleaning Process Through ICM

  Any cleaning process must be validated by measurements of contamination levels before and after a cleaning step.
• Air Cleaning

  Will Air Cleaning Reduce Health Effects from Indoor Air Pollutants?

  Regardless of how efficient and effective air-cleaning devices are in removing pollutants, a question still remains about their ability to reduce adverse health effects.