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Air Conditioning
Liquid Desiccant - Dehumidification For Challenging Environments
A review of liquid desiccant technology and its application to difficult loads and environments.
Flooding
Flood Cleanup: Avoiding Indoor Air Quality Problems
While removing standing water is of most obvious concern after flooding, indoor air quality concerns must also be taken into consideration during cleanup.
Indoor Air Quality
Indoor Air Quality is a Shared Responsibility
What everyone can do to contribute to better IAQ, including building managers, tenants, and owners.
Indoor Air Quality
IAQ Results in Improved Academic Performance: Evidence from Scientific Literature
Studies show the impact of good indoor air quality on the health and performance of students and staff.
Ventilation
Impacts of Building Ventilation on Health and Performance
Ventilation is the supply of outdoor air to a building. Ventilation rates vary considerably from building to building and over time within individual buildings. Throughout the normal range of ventilation rates encountered in buildings, increased ventilation rates are, on average, associated, with fewer adverse health effects and with superior work and school performance.
Asthma
Study Says: Clean Floors are Healthy Floors
A broad-based medical research project called "The Inner City Asthma Study" followed nearly 1,000 inner city kids with moderate to severe asthma over a period of three years.
Flooring
A Commentary on Carpet
Which is healthier: carpet or hard floors? The answer to that question is more complex and less clear-cut than you might think.
Waste Management
EPA Waste Management Checklist for Schools
Proper waste management promotes good indoor air quality (IAQ), decreases the need for pesticides, and controls odors, contaminants, and vermin.
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
EPA Walkthrough Inspection Checklist
Use this checklist from EPA to make your IAQ walkthrough inspection as productive as it can be.
Indoor Air Quality
Diagnosing and Solving IAQ Problems: Checking Potential Causes
After hypothesizing potential causes, you can perform simple checks to determine if the problem is obvious or if deeper investigation is required.
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
EPA: Introduction to Molds
Types of mold and the health effects and symptoms associated with exposure to them.
Safety
Mold Remediation - Communication With Building Occupants
When signs of mold growth are present, open communication with building occupants is essential.
Carpet
Commentary: Are Carpets Appropriate for Schools?
Jeffrey C. May, MA, principal scientist, May Indoor Air Investigations LLC, and member of the HFI Healthy Carpet Workgroup, shares his perspective.
HEPA
Portable Anteroom HEPA Filtration May Prevent Perioperative Transmission of Airborne Microorganisms
AJIC study says a supplemental portable anteroom high-efficiency particulate air (PAS-HEPA) filter unit outside operating room suites may prevent secondary transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis).
VOC Sensors
Beyond CO2: Sensing VOCs in Indoor Air Protects Health, Saves Energy
VOC sensors optimize ventilation to help ensure better air quality for occupants and reduce utility costs for building owners.
Mold
Preventing Mold Related Problems in the Indoor Workplace
OSHA guide to preventing mold, mold sources, and building-related illnesses.
Child Safety
Who's In Charge of Children's Environmental Health at School?
While there are services to protect adults from some environmental hazards at school, more vulnerable children lack the same protection.
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.
PAH
What are Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs)?
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a group of over 100 different chemicals that are formed during the incomplete burning of coal, oil and gas, garbage, or other organic substances like tobacco or charbroiled meat.
Coal Tar Sealant
Is Your Parking Lot Making You Sick?
Coal tar sealants are often used to protect and renew parking lots. Dust from this substance can get into buildings and cause a health hazard.
Asthma
HFI Issues Asthma Prevention Recommendations for Use of Cleaning Solutions
A clean facility is a healthy facility - most of the time - but it’s ironic that some products designed to make our buildings cleaner and healthier may contribute to asthma.
HVAC
HVAC Energy-Saving Measures Compatible With IAQ
Data from many facilities show that a properly commissioned building with controls and equipment functioning properly can save 5%-15% in total building energy cost. With a little knowledge this can be done without compromising IAQ.
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.
Asthma
Asthma Hospitalizations Go Up When Kids Return to School
According to the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health: "Returning to school after vacations substantially increases the risk of hospital admissions for asthma in children, and this has considerable public health and economic impact."
Carpet Cleaning
Carpet and Health
The benefits of carpet are forgotten or ignored in the face of perceived hazards.
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.
Sustainability
Trend Towards Sustainability Grows
Five positive sustainable trends in the U.S. you may not have noticed.
Indoor Air Quality
How Does Indoor Air Quality Impact Student Health and Academic Performance?
Making the case for comprehensive IAQ management in schools.
Healthy Schools
The Science of Cleaning for Healthy Schools
A healthy school needs to engage in a scientific and professional cleaning process to realize its health objectives.
Healthy Facility
Sustainability initiatives can benefit the bottom line, worker health and safety, and the environment
Green the plant logically: Not every initiative will have a positive, sustainable return.
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.
Water
Disinfection By-products: A Question of Balance
By all accounts, disinfection of drinking water is one of the major public  health triumphs of the 20th century. No human endeavor, however, is without risk.
Schools
The Impact of the Physical Environment on Health & Learning
What benefits of healthy schools have been documented?

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