Building Air Quality: A Guide for Building Owners and Facility Managers
The Building Air Quality, developed by the EPA and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, provides practical suggestions on preventing, identifying, and resolving indoor air quality (IAQ) problems in public and commercial buildings. This guidance provides information on factors affecting indoor air quality; describes how to develop an IAQ profile of building conditions and create an IAQ management plan; describes investigative strategies to identify causes of IAQ problems; and provides criteria for assessing alternative mitigation strategies, determining whether a problem has been resolved, and deciding whether to consult outside technical specialists. Other topics included in the guide are key problem causing factors; air quality sampling; heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems; moisture problems; and additional sources of information.
The Building Air Quality Action Plan meets the needs of building owners and managers who want an easy-to-understand path for taking their building from current conditions and practices to the successful institutionalization of good IAQ management practices. It emphasizes changing how you operate and maintain your building, not increasing the amount of work or cost of maintaining your building. The BAQ Action Plan follows 8 logical steps and includes a 100-item Checklist that is designed to help verify implementation of the Action Plan. This guidance is available here only as a PDF file.
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TAB I: Basics Section 1: About this Document (PDF, 4 pp, 16KB) Section 2: Factors Affecting Indoor Air Quality
(PDF, 8 pp, 65KB) Section 3: Effective Communication
(PDF, 5 pp, 44KB) TAB II: Preventing IAQ Problems Section 4: Developing an IAQ Profile
(PDF, 11 pp, 177KB) Section 5: Managing Buildings for Good IAQ
(PDF, 13 pp, 154KB) TAB III: Resolving IAQ Problems Section 6: Diagnosing IAQ Problems
(PDF, 35 pp, 434KB) Section 7: Mitigating IAQ Problems
(PDF, 24 pp, 590KB) Section 8: Hiring Professional Assistance to Solve an IAQ Problem
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TAB IV: Appendices Appendix A: Common IAQ Measurements - A General Guide
(PDF, 11 pp, 235KB) Appendix B: HVAC Systems and Indoor Air Quality
(PDF, 19 pp, 514KB) Appendix C: Moisture, Mold and Mildew
(PDF, 6 pp, 198KB) Appendix D: Asbestos
(PDF, 4 pp, 38KB) Appendix E: Radon
(PDF, 2 pp, 12KB) Appendix F: Glossary and Acronyms (PDF, 4 pp, 15KB) Appendix G: Resources
(PDF, 11 pp, 29KB) TAB V: Indoor Air Quality FORMS
INDEX (PDF, 5 pp, 16KB) |