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The following training was presented live on the University of Georgia campus in the fall of 2008. John Bracey and Paul Bates walk through key strategies to improve indoor air quality (IAQ) in commercial buildings by demonstrating how building design, construction and maintenance practices, which are largely responsible for poor air quality inside buildings, can be improved to include better IAQ management throughout the process. The following will be among the topics covered in this IAQ training tool:
- What are health and financial risks of poor IAQ?
- How buildings impact occupant health
- Designing for optimal air quality
- IAQ management during building construction
- HVAC & Ventilation Strategies to improve IAQ
- Operations & Maintenance Practices that impact IAQ
- Green Building Programs addressing IAQ
- IAQ Case Studies
- IAQ Resources
TARGET AUDIENCE
Building owners, design teams, engineers, contractors, facility managers, building maintenance personnel and others responsible for the design, construction or maintenance of commercial buildings. |
Slideshow 1:Improving Indoor Air Quality
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26 mins |
| Slideshow 2:Moisture in Buildings |
14 mins |
| Slideshow 3:IAQ and Building Design |
36 mins |
| Slideshow 4:IAQ and Existing Buildings |
10 mins |
| Slideshow5:Case Study |
3 mins |
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| Total Time |
89 mins |
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- Understand the sources of moisture and mold issues, including how building envelope design and building maintenance strategies can prevent moisture from finding a way inside the building.
- Understanding the pollutant pathway; how contaminants, such as mold, VOC’s and particulate matter find their way into the indoor environment.
- How to incorporate IAQ management strategies during design and construction of new commercial buildings.
- How to manage moisture and pollutant source control in an existing building.
- Understand how indoor air quality is addressed in green building programs; such as LEED for New Construction, and LEED for Existing Buildings.
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Southface Commercial Green Building Services provides technical assistance on environmentally-sustainable building and community design, building science, energy efficiency and renewable energy. Our clients include the private sector, government agencies, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, and utilities. As a 501(c)3 private, non-profit education, research and technical assistance organization. Southface does not directly provide design or construction services, but rather serves as a consultant to the owner or design team.
Commercial Green Building Services promotes the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED™) program of the US Green Building Council. LEED addresses site, energy, water, materials, and indoor environmental quality. Southface has expertise in all of these areas, and is skilled at assisting design teams in using a wholistic approach to creating high performance buildings.
Module Team
Paul Bates, GREENGUARD Environmental Institute
John Bracey, Southface Technical Project Manager
Denise Grimm, Southface Technical Project Manager
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