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Enhanced Indoor Air
Quality Encouraged Through Free Download of IAQ Guide.
To promote good indoor air quality
(IAQ) in buildings, ASHRAE is making available for free a guide
for achieving enhanced IAQ.
The Indoor Air Quality Guide: Best Practices for Design,
Construction and Commissioning provides strategies to achieve
good IAQ using proven technologies and without significantly
increasing costs.
First published in 2009, the guide is the result of
collaboration between ASHRAE, the American Institute of
Architects, the Building Owners and Managers Association
International, the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors’
National Association and the U.S. Green Building Council with
funding provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The guide can be downloaded for free at
www.ashrae.org/FreeIAQGuidance.
The free download is being offered in support of the
presidential theme of 2013-14 ASHRAE President William P. “Bill”
Bahnfleth, Ph.D., P.E., Fellow ASHRAE, ASME Fellow. His theme,
“Shaping the Next,” focuses, in part, on making buildings safe,
healthy, productive, comfortable environments in harmony with
nature.
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“As we move forward in
shaping the next generation of buildings and systems, good indoor
air quality must be a central focus of our efforts,” Bahnfleth said.
“The health and comfort of buildings occupants is too important to
leave IAQ as an after-thought in design, construction and operation.
By making this publication available to the industry, we are
providing guidance to help ensure the use of best practices for good
IAQ, allowing all of us to enjoy the benefits of a better indoor
environment cost-effectively.”
The book describes 40 strategies for achieving critical IAQ
objectives related to moisture management, ventilation, filtration
and air cleaning and source control. It also highlights how design
and construction teams can work together to ensure good IAQ
strategies are incorporated from initial design through project
completion.
The book also contains:
Hundreds of internal and external links to resources for the design,
construction, and commissioning of buildings with excellent indoor
air quality
Access to an incredible variety of in-depth information by topic to
help you design, construct and operate buildings using best
practices for indoor air quality
Best practices for all aspects of IAQ building design, commissioning
and construction, including designing for maintainability
Tools and material for demonstrating the value of IAQ to clients
ASHRAE, founded in
1894, is a building technology society with more than 50,000 members
worldwide. The Society and its members focus on building systems,
energy efficiency, indoor air quality, refrigeration and
sustainability. Through research, standards writing, publishing and
continuing education, ASHRAE shapes tomorrow’s built environment
today.
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